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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:21:59 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include pmap.h 
Message-ID:  <200011301021.eAUALxD94160@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpsno9wyyv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Increase NKPT from 17 to 30.  This fixes the 4GB ram boot panic on both
> >   -current and RELENG_4 with GENERIC.
> 
> Does this affect section 13.15 of the FAQ in any way?

No.  This is just a bootstrap issue.  Once the VM system is up and running,
it NKPT is used as the initial count of what becomes dynamically allocated
via pmap_growkernel().  NKPT initializes the 'int nkpt' variable which
can grow up to but not exceed NKPDE as in the param file in 13.15.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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