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Date:      Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:33:44 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r242847 - in head/sys: i386/include kern
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On 10 November 2012 12:04, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:
> Sure, if you'd like you can help me craft that comment now?

I think this is short and clear:
===
Limit the amount of kernel address space used to a fixed cap.
384 is an arbitrarily chosen value that leaves 270 MB of KVA available
of the 2 MB total. On systems with large amount of memory reduce the
the slope of the function in order to avoiding exhausting KVA.
===

-- 
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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