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From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC
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On 10/27/08, Simon Chang <simonychang@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Raising PMAP_SHPGPERPROC works most of the time.  You can also re-tune
[...]
> By the way, does anyone know whether there is any way to tune
> PMAP_SHPGPERPROC using sysctl, or does such button/knob not exist?

It is tunable with a sysctl in AMD64 kernels, but apparently not in
i386. The logged error message in AMD64 mentions the sysctl, at least
in 7.0-R.

-- Bob Johnson