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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:51:41 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Anjali Kulkarni <anjali@indranetworks.com>, osa@freebsd.org.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel Memory Limit
Message-ID:  <3C30B3BD.EF91D7DF@mindspring.com>
References:  <006e01c1905f$25fd1380$0a00a8c0@indranet> <20011229164322.A73212@freebsd.org.ru> <002801c191c2$9c497fb0$0a00a8c0@indranet> <200112310728.fBV7SuQ19094@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     KVM is only 1G, and a lot of is used-up.  You cannot allocate
>     (directly map) hundreds of megabytes of kernel memory.

You can crank up the KVA space, though the handbook is wrong for
-release, and woefully out of date for -current.

You can also do big allocations, if you do them at startup, but
they require heroic measures and have their own limitations.

See my other (longer) posting for a clearer explanation.


-- Terry

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