Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:44:34 +0200 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/27259: md causes hang with make world Message-ID: <20010524004434.C20596@matrix.42.org> In-Reply-To: <53079.990656529@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:22:09AM %2B0200 References: <20010524001702.A20596@matrix.42.org> <53079.990656529@critter>
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Hi,
first, I thank you for your time explaining that to me.
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:22:09AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20010524001702.A20596@matrix.42.org>, Stefan `Sec` Zehl writes:
> >The machine in question has 1G of physical ram and the Malloc disk (md)
> >is 600Megs big.
>
> and that is simply not possible.
Ok, thanks for clarifying that. I assumed that by increasing MD_NSECT i
had done everything necessary for a such big ram disk.
I will draft up a note for the md manpage, and submit it, as soon as I
understand this matter, so others can be warned.
> the Malloc disk is limited by the amount of RAM malloc(9) can allocate
> in one bucket. Use vmstat(8) to see how much that is for your machine.
I'm not sure which number you exactly mean. After a bit of digging, I
think this is the 'Limit' column of 'vmstat -m'
| Memory statistics by type Type Kern
| Type InUse MemUse HighUse Limit Requests Limit Limit Size(s)
| MD sectors 24424 12212K 93593K102400K 310558 0 0 512
which appears to be 100M on my machine.
Is this right? If so, is there a way to increase that significantly, or
is this an inherent limitation of the FreeBSD kernel?
CU,
Sec
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