From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 8:13:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7625615427 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 08:13:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA43267; Fri, 14 May 1999 17:13:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Chuck Youse Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1GB, kvm issues. References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 May 1999 17:13:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: Chuck Youse's message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 09:32:41 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Youse writes: > It's been noted on several occasions that with large (> 256MB) of RAM, one > has to be "careful" with the configuration (NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS) to > prevent the box from falling over every few days due to kvm problems. It's not a problem as long as your kernel address space is large enough. The default in -CURRENT and recent versions -STABLE is 1 GB, which should be enough for most (if not all) uses. The default for 3.1-RELEASE and -STABLE up to mid-April is 256 MB. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message