From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 10:28:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3849937B403 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 10:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f97HSaB01830; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:28:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: why it isn't possible to put more than 20Mb on the memory-based disk ? (system simply hangs) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Oct 2001 23:24:02 +0600." Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 19:28:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1828.1002475715@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ilia Chipit sine writes: >Salut, Poul-Henning Kamp ! On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> man md > >and what ? malloc Backing store is allocated using malloc(9). Only one malloc- bucket is used, which means that all md devices with malloc backing must share the malloc-per-bucket-quota. The exact size of this quota varies, in particular with the amount of RAM in the system. The exact value can be determined with vmstat(8). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message