From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 6 20:57:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D270B16A417 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vadimnuclight@tpu.ru) Received: from relay1.tpu.ru (relay1.tpu.ru [213.183.112.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8EA13C448 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vadimnuclight@tpu.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.tpu.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F595104816; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:57:02 +0600 (NOVT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tpu.ru Received: from relay1.tpu.ru ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (relay1.tpu.ru [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3VYCAciAu0sG; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:56:59 +0600 (NOVT) Received: from mail.main.tpu.ru (mail.main.tpu.ru [10.0.0.3]) by relay1.tpu.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5834010478C; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:56:59 +0600 (NOVT) Received: from mail.tpu.ru ([213.183.112.105]) by mail.main.tpu.ru with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:56:58 +0600 Received: from nuclight.avtf.net ([78.140.2.250]) by mail.tpu.ru over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:56:57 +0600 Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:56:53 +0600 To: "Kris Kennaway" References: <20080104163352.GA42835@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <9bbcef730801040958t36e48c9fjd0fbfabd49b08b97@mail.gmail.com> <200801061051.26817.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <9bbcef730801060458k4bc9f2d6uc3f097d70e087b68@mail.gmail.com> <4780D289.7020509@FreeBSD.org> <4780E546.9050303@FreeBSD.org> <9bbcef730801060651y489f1f9bw269d0968407dd8fb@mail.gmail.com> <4780EF09.4090908@FreeBSD.org> <47810BE3.4080601@FreeBSD.org> <4781113C.3090904@FreeBSD.org> From: "Vadim Goncharov" Organization: AVTF TPU Hostel Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=koi8-r MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4781113C.3090904@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3865) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jan 2008 20:56:57.0661 (UTC) FILETIME=[ACF54ED0:01C850A6] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:26:26 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will ZFS become stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:57:05 -0000 06.01.08 @ 23:34 Kris Kennaway wrote: >> What is the other 512 MB of the 1 GB used for? > > Everything else that the kernel needs address space for. Buffer cache, > mbuf allocation, etc. Aren't they allocated from the same memory zones? I have a router with 256 Mb RAM, it had a panic with ng_nat once due to exhausted kmem. So, what these number from it's sysctl do really mean? vm.kmem_size: 83415040 vm.kmem_size_max: 335544320 vm.kmem_size_scale: 3 vm.kvm_size: 1073737728 vm.kvm_free: 704638976 -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov