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Cc: alc@freebsd.org, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64: change VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE to 1?
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on 30/07/2010 23:14 John Baldwin said the following:
> I think this is much better.  My strawman was rather hackish in that it was
> layering a hack on top of the existing calculations.  I prefer your approach.
> I do not think penalizing amd64 machines with less than 1.5GB is a big worry
> as most x86 machines with a small amount of memory are probably running as
> i386 anyway.  Given that, I would probably lean towards 1/8 instead of 1/7,
> but I would be happy with either one.

Alan, John,

are you planning to commit the vnodes limit patch or a version of it?

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Andriy Gapon