From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 30 2:22:27 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (adsl-64-163-195-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.163.195.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C712B37B400; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:22:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAUALxD94160; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200011301021.eAUALxD94160@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include pmap.h In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:21:59 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Wemm writes: > > Log: > > Increase NKPT from 17 to 30. This fixes the 4GB ram boot panic on both > > -current and RELENG_4 with GENERIC. > > Does this affect section 13.15 of the FAQ in any way? No. This is just a bootstrap issue. Once the VM system is up and running, it NKPT is used as the initial count of what becomes dynamically allocated via pmap_growkernel(). NKPT initializes the 'int nkpt' variable which can grow up to but not exceed NKPDE as in the param file in 13.15. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message