From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 21 15:21:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A869837B405; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592F510333E; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:20:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by earth.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED351103333; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:20:29 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:20:29 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ? In-Reply-To: <3CC26C91.C81002ED@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020421191440.J1721-100000@mail1.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > No, there's no stats collected on this stuff, because it's a pretty > obvious and straight-forward thing: you have to have a KVA space large > enough that, once you subtract out 4K for each 4M of physical memory and > swap (max 4G total for both), you end up with memory left over for the > kernel to use, and your limits are such that the you don't run out of > PTEs before you run out of mbufs (or whatever you plan on allocating). God, I'm glad its straightforwards :) Okay, first off, you say "(max 4G total for both)" ... do you max *total* between the two, or phy can be 4g *plus* swap can be 4g for a total of 8g? For instance, right now, I have 3Gig of physical and ~3gig of swap allocated ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message