From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 07:32:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EAF106564A for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 07:32:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6238FC0A for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 07:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by laai10 with SMTP id i10so3145laa.13 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 00:32:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=iya9tMCkde715ausDH5FLUJCH+rHQeKt8RW6axtC+Sk=; b=iHIkPIS1NVK8FHy00SZQxl+5+ZBOWG+bDYTHJLtgsq/QMyyFiEgfD2ve4CHxW7xEJf Q44CJODOXDgblveluIMEaIOKZa96vxj1MGKJoSQ8ccXq3v68wo+AIaZK6nQwXYvSUPj+ 4pwBGjC0OzfTzrPRi9bLFYtwBbRIjY5uE5sSnItVfRpRioLecNOhMOTO3A19KHqhw4a6 IFRVlm31Xk8PjhIECFdAKhhE8BRDRMFpNikK1+MtxhikiQ5EiGqFHZnJBOxtJkJsdG6t kCOhv/D4g/G3Tu01/e1PP6KgYGbbaE+OZBNFRec/rwwUsvcp351LdzNUr5bcek1RPfqd L/ew== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.146.39 with SMTP id sz7mr3195603lab.3.1336635131328; Thu, 10 May 2012 00:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.26.66 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2012 00:32:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FAAAF8E.40007@greatbaysoftware.com> References: <4FAAAF8E.40007@greatbaysoftware.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 02:32:11 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Charles Owens Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:32:13 -0000 On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Charles Owens wrote: > Hi fellow BSD-types, > > I have a buy system that forks lots of processes and I see repeatedly the > message: "Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either > the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable". > > System details: > > * 8.1-RELEASE-p2 i386 PAE kernel > * 6 GB RAM > The warning is not applicable any longer including your version as well as several previous ones. The warning has been removed from current releases. -- Adam Vande More