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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:23:46 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kmem_map too small: 3832475648 total allocated
Message-ID:  <20100429212345.GA2215@lonrach.keltia.net>
In-Reply-To: <n2m2e027be01004290844k51dd6060q77375e894ff4efc4@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4BD8F7FA.2080103@jrv.org> <20100429145334.GB62822@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr> <n2m2e027be01004290844k51dd6060q77375e894ff4efc4@mail.gmail.com>

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According to Tom Evans:
> Citation needed? I have a file server running amd64 8-STABLE with 4GB
> of RAM, 6 x 1.5 TB drives in raidz, and have never had any problems
> with memory usage. Are you saying that after my next update, adding
> another 6 x 1.5 TB drives, it will start being flaky and/or panicing
> with kmem_map too small errors?


I don't have the citation handy but it was on the opensolaris forum in the zfs community. I understand that this is FreeBSD we're speaking about but the figure comes from the fact that ZFS (and particularly the ARC cache) does take a lot of memory.

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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
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