From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 03:36:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19316 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19309 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from bergelmir.ifi.uio.no (2602@bergelmir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.172]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id MAA29977; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:36:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by bergelmir.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:36:18 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com Cc: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current panics.. References: <199810051526.IAA12441@implode.root.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 06 Oct 1998 12:36:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 08:26:04 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA19312 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman writes: > Wcarchive does NOT run a standard kernel. It has various tweaks, such as > greatly expanded kernel virtual address space, which are specific to that > machine and not appropriate for 99.999% of FreeBSD users. NMBCLUSTERS on > wcarchive is currently set to 80000, but will need to be doubled again to > 160000 before we can support 10000 concurrent users. The VM is evenly split > for 2GB for user processes and 2GB for the kernel (contrast that with > standard FreeBSD which is 3.75GB user and .25GB kernel). Is there any quick way (as in "add this option to your kernel config") to augment the kernel's address space? If not, shouldn't there be one? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message