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Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:03:20 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Superpages?
Message-ID:  <g8ibc8$1l3$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <g8968h$q9l$2@ger.gmane.org> <ca3526250808181657s321621fflb48c0b72841acb0d@mail.gmail.com>

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Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com> wrote:

> Superpages are not enabled by default but support for them is a standard
> part of the amd64 and i386 kernel on HEAD.  You can enable superpages on
> either of those architectures by simply setting  the tunable
> vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled to a non-zero value at boot time.

To clarify: This needs to be set in loader.conf.  sysctl.conf is
evaluated too late.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de




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