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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:00:57 -0800
From:      Sam <sam@rback.com>
To:        Tor.Egge@fast.no
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tyan S1836DLUAN >512Mb problems
Message-ID:  <36797F19.8DA010A8@rback.com>
References:  <199812171853.KAA22205@phred.redbacknetworks.com> <199812171943.UAA17794@midten.fast.no>

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Added those options to the config, and changed pmap.h to double the SMP
size of NKPDE as well as the LOAD_BASE
in the Makefile. System would reboot immediately upon loading the
kernel. 
Is there something else I would need to do for this?
Thanks,
-Sam

Tor.Egge@fast.no wrote:
> 
> > The loading of the system I'm doing uses thousands of processes, which
> > I can run more of with 512M than 1Gig. ie it fires off the processes
> > slowly until it runs out of physical ram and then moves through swap
> > when using 512M, with 1Gig, it freezes when it gets down to
> > 350-255 megs free of physical ram. Tried juggling the new dimms
> > around to different dimm slots, to no avail.
> 
> In the vmstat -m output, you have memory statistics by type.  If the
> usage for a type hits the limit, malloc will block, and the result
> might be a deadlock/freeze.
> 
> I suggest adding
> 
>         options          "VM_KMEM_SIZE=(128*1024*1024)"
>         options          "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=(128*1024*1024)"
> 
> to the kernel config file, and doubling the kernel kva range
> (from 252 MB to 508 MB, see PR#1880 for a pre-SMP patch).
> 
> - Tor Egge

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