From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 23 15:48: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (beachchick.freebsd.dk [212.242.34.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52A737B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4NMlkm53416; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:47:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/27259: md causes hang with make world In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 00:44:34 +0200." <20010524004434.C20596@matrix.42.org> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:47:46 +0200 Message-ID: <53414.990658066@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20010524004434.C20596@matrix.42.org>, Stefan `Sec` Zehl writes: >> 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? Yes. I belive you can raise it, but the wisdom of doing so is in doubt as a lot of other kernel dimensions will change too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message