From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 5 11:11:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96D737B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:11:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC1AA43E9C for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 13719 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Dec 2002 19:11:30 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:11:30 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxusers and random system freezes In-Reply-To: <3DEEB45A.BEDF8EA5@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Marc Recht wrote: > > Every now and this I hear people saying (mostly you :)) that some problems > > are KVA related or that the KVA must be increased. This makes me a bit > > curious, since I've never seen problems like that on Linux. It sounds for > > me, the not kernel hacker, a bit like something which should be set at boot > > time (or via sysctl). Have you got some pointers which explain FreeBSD's > > KVA ? > > I have written documentation for FreeBSD 4.3/4.4. Unfortunately, > everyone keeps substituting activity for action, and hacking away > at the code, so it doesn't sit still long enough to match any > useful documentation; otherwise, I would have published what I > wrote in Pentad Embedded Systems Journal already (example: the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I appreciate some of the info you give. But every time you reference a proper noun (person, journal, etc.), Google only gives results of you talking about it in FreeBSD list archives! See also "freebsd mitre netbeui" What kind of conclusion is one to draw from that? -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message