From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 1 10:23:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721C237B41E for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:23:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g01INYD14953 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:23:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:23:34 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel Memory Limit (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If someone has a chance to look into this before 4.5-RELEASE goes out the door, that would be great. I've also updated the tuning(7) man page so there may need to be other propagation of documents. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:51:41 -0800 From: Terry Lambert To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Anjali Kulkarni , osa@freebsd.org.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Memory Limit Matthew Dillon wrote: > KVM is only 1G, and a lot of is used-up. You cannot allocate > (directly map) hundreds of megabytes of kernel memory. You can crank up the KVA space, though the handbook is wrong for -release, and woefully out of date for -current. You can also do big allocations, if you do them at startup, but they require heroic measures and have their own limitations. See my other (longer) posting for a clearer explanation. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message