Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:45:57 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r242847 - in head/sys: i386/include kern Message-ID: <CAGE5yCouCWr4NKbgnjKfLcjc8EWqG0wRiSmXDDnrnM3%2BUc8KVQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmabVuR0JoFURRUF%2Bed0hmT=LF_n5LXSip0ibU0hk6qWw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201211100208.qAA28e0v004842@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxg=HPmQS1T-LFsZ=DuKEqH30iJFpkz%2BJGhLr4OBL8nohjg@mail.gmail.com> <509DC25E.5030306@mu.org> <509E3162.5020702@FreeBSD.org> <509E7E7C.9000104@mu.org> <CAF6rxgmV8dx-gsQceQKuMQEsJ%2BGkExcKYxEvQ3kY%2B5_nSjvA3w@mail.gmail.com> <509E830D.5080006@mu.org> <509E847E.30509@mu.org> <CAF6rxgnfm4HURYp=O4MY8rB6H1tGiqJ3rdPx0rZ8Swko5mAOZg@mail.gmail.com> <509E8930.50800@mu.org> <CAF6rxgmabVuR0JoFURRUF%2Bed0hmT=LF_n5LXSip0ibU0hk6qWw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. > === That's actually completely 100% incorrect... -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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