From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 18 18:34:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF8237B409; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7J1YhM61727; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3710F38FD; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Leo Bicknell Cc: Matt Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, murray@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release In-Reply-To: <20010818205925.B82967@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:34:43 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010819013443.3710F38FD@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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