From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 23:55: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt050n71.san.rr.com (dt050n71.san.rr.com [204.210.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723ED15369 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 23:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt050n71.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA61047; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 23:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3808213F.6C9EF924@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 23:54:55 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC References: <14342.4982.170043.354012@trooper.velocet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gilbert wrote: > > Among other troubles (for the fuller story, see kern/14141), I have > been getting this message. The comment in the kernel config file > makes me more than a little bit nervous about tweeking this. It > seemed (although I can not yet prove) that simply increasing this made > the machine less reliable. > > What are we twiddling when we change this, and what are recomended > values? > > pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC Have you studied the mail archives on this point? Especially -hackers? There was an extensive discussion about it very recently. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message