Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:40:05 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64/164227: commit references a PR Message-ID: <20120130214005.GA1902@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <201201272230.q0RMUF6x029199@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201201272230.q0RMUF6x029199@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:30:15PM +0000, dfilter service wrote: > The following reply was made to PR sparc64/164227; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: dfilter@FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service) > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: sparc64/164227: commit references a PR > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:25:55 +0000 (UTC) > > Author: marius > Date: Fri Jan 27 22:25:46 2012 > New Revision: 230630 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230630 > > Log: > For machines where the kernel address space is unrestricted increase > VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE to 2, awaiting more insight from alc@. As it turns > out, the VM apparently has problems with machines that have large holes > in the physical address space, causing the kmem_suballoc() call in > kmeminit() to fail with a VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE of 1. Using a value of 2 > allows these, namely Blade 1500 with 2GB of RAM, to boot. just to confirm that I can boot r230767M on my blade 1500 with 2GB ram. Many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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