From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 6:56:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D7F37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:56:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Wf6s-000Mi1-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:56:14 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id C6EC742893; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:56:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:56:13 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: the LINT file Message-ID: <20020201145613.GA1114@raggedclown.net> References: <3C5A7FBC.CC58C4ED@club-internet.fr> <20020201121846.GA47075@student.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020201121846.GA47075@student.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:45:00PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > I'm actually upgrading one of my test box from 4_4 to 4_5, and I > > stumbled on this : > > > > # Tune the kernel malloc area parameters. VM_KMEM_SIZE represents the > > # minimum, in bytes, and is typically (12*1024*1024) (12MB). > > # VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX represents the maximum, typically 200 megabytes. > > # VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE can be set to adjust the auto-tuning factor, which > > # typically defaults to 4 (kernel malloc area size is physical memory > > # divided by the scale factor). > > # > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE="(10*1024*1024)" > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX="(100*1024*1024)" > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE="4" > > > > the comment says that VM_KMEM_SIZE is set to 12MB but it's set to 10, > > and that _MAX is set to 200 but it's set to 100... > > I heard once that if the comment and the code differed, they were both > > wrong :) > > so, what should be the default values ? > > > The values used in LINT are usually and intentionally *not* the default > values. The reason for this is to try to make sure that you get at > least some testing with non-default values. > Meaning ? The last sentence lost me... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message