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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:25:34 +0100
From: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: How to increase kernel VM?
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On Sat, 2002/03/09 at 16:10:59 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> I've been running Jake's March 7th kernel (once I finally copied it
> into the right location), and noted that the kernel memory limits seem
> absurdly low -- so low, in fact, that my Ultra 5 has deadlocked in
> `cvs co' several times as a result of running into the kmem limit for
> FFS nodes:
> 
>      FFS node  8467  4234K   4670K  6144K    35726    0     0  512
> 
> This machine thought that maxvnodes ought to be 19275, which would
> have required at least 9640K of memory just for FFS nodes.
> 
> Things seem to be working reasonanbly now that I have lowered
> maxvnodes to 8192, and vnlru appears to actually be running, but I
> would obviously prefer to have a more reasonably-sized kernel malloc
> arena.

This should alredy be fixed in the p4 repository (the definition of
VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE was missing from sparc64/include/vmparam.h). An
updated kernel should be available soon.

	- thomas

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