Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:32:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Garrett <eagle@phc.igs.net> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: Chuck Youse <cyouse@cybersites.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1GB, kvm issues. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905141029490.31555-100000@eagle.phc.igs.net> In-Reply-To: <199905141456.KAA23614@cs.rpi.edu>
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, David E. Cross wrote: > > 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. > > > > Can somebody be more specific? I'm just about to order a really, really > > expensive machine and I want to be sure I can get it to work .. :) > > > > Chuck Youse > > This was fixed somewhere in the 3.1-STABLE branch, you will not need to worry > about this at all with 3.2-BETA/3.2-RELEASE. > I thought so as well, however I added a 64 meg dimm and ran into the same problems he is describing. After I remembered the problem. I lowered the value of maxusers and everything is back to normal. This is on 4.0 - Current. btw.. 1 - 128 meg dimm 1 - 64 meg dimm and for the record 750 meg of swap space rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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