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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:50:47 -0400
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@sw.ru>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: using mem above 4Gb was: swapon some regular file
Message-ID:  <200210081150.47943.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DA2FC9F.22C66877@mindspring.com>
References:  <200210071630.42512.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <3DA2F716.C5B69C7C@mindspring.com> <3DA2FC9F.22C66877@mindspring.com>

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On Tuesday 08 October 2002 11:41 am, Terry Lambert wrote:
= Terry Lambert wrote:
= > So whatever connections you are getting now... halve that, or less,
= > to get a window for your RAM disk (you will need KVA for mappings
= > for all the memory that *can* be in the window, etc.).
= 
= To emphasize this: if you are using 4K pages, you will need:
= 
= 	4K/1M * 64G = 256M
= 
= ...1/4 of 1G of memory outside the window, just for page tables.
= 
= Also, if we still were using an mbuf per connection for the
= template, for 1,000,000 connections, that's 256M of RAM -- another
= 1/4 gig.
 
= Yeah, most people don't think in these terms; personally, I like
= to call it "Extreme BSD".  8-).

Although this is fascinating read -- it getting further and further away
from the original subject. And from the modified one too -- I don't
believe Vladimir said anything about networking...

	-mi


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