From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 21 18: 6: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A7A15479 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:05:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA96562; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37BF4CB1.F18EFC5A@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:04:49 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0815 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: adhir@forumone.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG adhir@forumone.com wrote: > > An excerpt from my security check output: > > > orion.forumone.com kernel log messages: > > pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC > So, can anyone: > > 1. tell me what this means pv entries come into effect when you have several programs sharing the same virtual memory address space. When one of them forks the pv entries allow the kernel to know which pages of physical memory to map into the new virtual space. > 2. tell me how to increase it Check out LINT. We've cranked it up to 800 on a -current system to accomodate some honkin' big apache processes we've got running. I know people that've increased it to 1,000 on -Stable. The default is 200, so try increasing it by steps of 200 until you no longer see that error. Increasing it to a larger value than needed will just waste precious kernel memory address space. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message