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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2012 10:24:37 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        Charles Owens <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Charles Owens
> <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com>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.
>
>
For amd64, yes, but not i386.  It can't be removed from i386.

Alan



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