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To: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r242847 - in head/sys: i386/include kern
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On 11/10/12 2:50 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 10/11/2012 04:56 Alfred Perlstein said the following:
>> Sure, this is magic for i386 PAE machines.  384 maxusers was pretty much the
>> highest you wanted auto-tuned SAFELY for 32bit KVA on i386.
> So 384 is i386 sans 'i' and minus two? :-)
> Sorry, I still couldn't find an explanation of 384 in your reply...
> E.g. why not 320 or 400.
>
Please consult the svn log for this file, it's relatively clear just in 
the commit logs/comments.  Grep for 384/512 and look around.

-Alfred