Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:50:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Max Kernel Memory? Message-ID: <976425.95447.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Setting vm.kmem_size to what seem to be usable values causes all kinds of memory allocations on boot. For example setting it to 1GB with 2GB installed results in a failure.
What is the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated to the kernel, and why can't 1/2 of the system's memory be allocated safely? We have a module with a potentially very large dynamic lookup table, with little going on in userland, so we want to allocate as much as possible to the kernel.
Barney
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