From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 14 10:37: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3C437B419 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:37:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8892E44D for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:36:54 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAEIasI37851 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:36:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:36:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200111141836.fAEIasI37851@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.vm.kmem.size Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.stable References: <20011111230817.A2325@grosbein.pp.ru> <20011113151329.A44837@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20011113224730.A864@grosbein.pp.ru> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1005762058 85972 216.194.193.106 (14 Nov 2001 18:20:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "EG" == Eugene Grosbein writes: EG> Are you shure? From LINT: EG> # Tune the kernel malloc area parameters. VM_KMEM_SIZE represents the EG> # minimum, in bytes, and is typically (12*1024*1024) (12MB). EG> # VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX represents the maximum, typically 200 megabytes. EG> # VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE can be set to adjust the auto-tuning factor, which EG> # typically defaults to 4 (kernel malloc area size is physical memory EG> # divided by the scale factor). EG> # EG> options VM_KMEM_SIZE="(10*1024*1024)" EG> options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX="(100*1024*1024)" EG> options VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE="4" I'm not sure specifically about these values, but the LINT "default" values for SHM settings is certainly not what you get by default if you leave out those tuning parameters. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message