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Date:      Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:29:46 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_init.c
Message-ID:  <86y8b3qp6t.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200504251922.j3PJM56h025523@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200504251922.j3PJM56h025523@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   Log:
>   Add the vm.exec_map_entries tunable and read-only sysctl, which controls
>   the number of entries in exec_map (maximum number of simultaneous execs
>   that can be handled by the kernel).  The default value of 16 is
>   insufficient on heavily loaded machines (particularly SMP machines), and
>   if it is exceeded then executing further processes will generate a SIGA=
BRT.

Why not just have them block until a slot becomes available?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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