From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 10:00:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC5E1065675 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:00:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23BE8FC3A for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7R9xRHe086924; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:59:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m7R9xOMo086923; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:59:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:59:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200808270959.m7R9xOMo086923@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, barry.boes@acciodata.com In-Reply-To: <18612.51201.285688.628405@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.3-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:59:27 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: kvm on amd64 - >6G? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, barry.boes@acciodata.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:00:08 -0000 Barry Boes wrote: > With the advent of ZFS, Solaris users are devoting 30G or more to > their ARC caches today. If FreeBSD 8 is going to up the KVM size, is > there a reason to not increase the limit to something that will not be > reached in the lifetime of 8? 100GB? I think Alan Cox recently increased the kmem limit in 8-current from 1.5 GB to 7 GB, and the default is 4.2 GB. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=180311 I don't know if this will be MFCed. It will not be in 7.1-Release; it's too late for that. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn