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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:23:50 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, izero@ms26.hinet.net, cross@math.psu.edu, grog@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded scerver
Message-ID:  <20010320102350.V29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200103201815.f2KIFR594803@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:15:27AM -0800
References:  <20010320111144.A51924@peorth.iteration.net> <20010320092717.R29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010320113818.B52586@peorth.iteration.net> <20010320120112.C52586@peorth.iteration.net> <200103201815.f2KIFR594803@earth.backplane.com>

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* Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> [010320 10:16] wrote:
> 
> :Another problem is that we have around 4000+ processes accessing
> :lots of SHM at the same time..
> 
>     How big is 'lots'?  If the shared memory segment is smallish, e.g.
>     less then 64MB, you should be ok.  If it is larger then you will
>     have to do some kernel tuning to avoid running out of pmap entries.

kern.ipc.shm_use_phys should remove the need for pv entries.

it's the default on solaris.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]


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