From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 28 16:38:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C39637B416 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 1E93310DDF7; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:38:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:38:28 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: TD790@aol.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NMBCLUSTERS question Message-ID: <20020128163828.Z13686@elvis.mu.org> References: <114.b82db03.29874825@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <114.b82db03.29874825@aol.com>; from TD790@aol.com on Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:34:45PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * TD790@aol.com [020128 16:35] wrote: > > Is the kernel smart enough to know if there is enough memory available if you > allocate too many nmbclusters? For example, if you have a disk with a kernel > compiled with 25000 clusters and you pop it on a machine with only 64M, will > it crash and burn? Also are clusters allocated out of the VM_KMEM_SIZE or out > of remaining memory? Most of the nmbclusters are borrowed from banned AOL users with too much time on their hands. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message