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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 00:47:46 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/27259: md causes hang with make world 
Message-ID:  <53414.990658066@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 00:44:34 %2B0200." <20010524004434.C20596@matrix.42.org> 

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In message <20010524004434.C20596@matrix.42.org>, Stefan `Sec` Zehl writes:

>> the Malloc disk is limited by the amount of RAM malloc(9) can allocate
>> in one bucket.   Use vmstat(8) to see how much that is for your machine.
>
>I'm not sure which number you exactly mean. After a bit of digging, I
>think this is the 'Limit' column of 'vmstat -m'
>
>| Memory statistics by type                          Type  Kern
>|         Type  InUse MemUse HighUse  Limit Requests Limit Limit Size(s)
>|    MD sectors 24424 12212K  93593K102400K   310558    0     0  512
>
>which appears to be 100M on my machine.
>
>Is this right? If so, is there a way to increase that significantly, or
>is this an inherent limitation of the FreeBSD kernel?

Yes.  I belive you can raise it, but the wisdom of doing so is in
doubt as a lot of other kernel dimensions will change too.


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