Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:34:43 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, murray@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release Message-ID: <20010819013443.3710F38FD@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010818205925.B82967@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:49:55AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > - I would like to cap the SWAPMETA zone reservation to 70MB, > > which allows us to manage a maximum of 29GB worth of swapped > > out data. > > Not to introduce machine dependancy, but on Intel max ram is 4GB, No. I have a machine with 6GB in it waiting for finishing the PAE tweaks. Intel ppro, pentium2 and pentium3 has a maximum RAM of 64GB. Pentium4 may have more but I have not checked. Not that this matters so much. Machines with that much ram generally have a goal of zero paging/swapping, period. A cap sounds like a fine compromise to me. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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