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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:28:21 +0200
From:      Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, "Derek \(freebsd lists\)" <482254ac@razorfever.net>
Subject:   MAXPHYS and physical memory (Was: Re: siis/atacam/ata/gmirror 8.0-BETA3 disk performance)
Message-ID:  <200909021728.21566.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A9E8677.1020208@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <h7lmvl$ebq$1@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> <4A9E8677.1020208@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday 02 September 2009 16:51:35 Alexander Motin wrote:

> For maximum linear I/O performance you may want to build kernel with
> options 	MAXPHYS=(1024*1024)

I've found that just doubling the default MAXPHYS already panics-on-boot a 
1.5GB i386 system. Is there any reasonable conversion table for MAXPHYS to 
physical memory, since various memory related kernel setups are derived from 
or calculated with MAXPHYS?
-- 
Mel



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