From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 15:54:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8ECE37B759 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:54:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5JMs8g21753; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:54:08 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <20000619155408.E17420@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000619125345.H26801@fw.wintelcom.net> <3249.961452627@localhost> <20000619151809.C17420@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000619153634.24385@hydrogen.funkthat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000619153634.24385@hydrogen.funkthat.com>; from gurney_j@efn.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:36:34PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John-Mark Gurney [000619 15:36] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 19: > > * Jordan K. Hubbard [000619 15:10] wrote: > > > > It doesn't bother you at all that cdrom.com can push 100mbit > > > > and support 6000 users on FreeBSD but Joe Average FreeBSD User > > > > can't because the hacks used aren't available? > > > > > > Huh? What makes you think that cdrom.com uses "special hacks" to get > > > its performance? Have you actually talked to David Greenman about > > > this lately? > > > > I'm quite sure cdrom.com has at least a kernel address space hack. > > didn't dg already commit these fixes to the source tree: > dg 1999/03/11 10:28:47 PST > > Modified files: > sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 kernel.script > sys/i386/include pmap.h > Log: > Increased kernel virtual address space to 1GB. NOTE: You MUST have fixed > bootblocks in order to boot the kernel after this! Also note that this > change breaks BSDI BSD/OS compatibility. > Also increased default NKPT to 17 so that FreeBSD can boot on machines > with >=2GB of RAM. Booting on machines with exactly 4GB requires other > patches, not included. Last I heard, cdrom.com uses 2gigs of kernel virtual address space. And what part of: "Booting on machines with exactly 4GB requires other patches, not included" didn't you understand? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message