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Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>,
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Subject: Re: ZFS kmem_map too small.
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> ...
>
> For i386 one has to set, eg. 'options KVA_PAGES=512' to the kernel
> config to be able to define kmem larger than ~700MB. I guess you're
> running amd64, maybe there is similar requirement?
>   

Given how much RAM PCs have these days, why isn't this a default for 
GENERIC?

Or why isn't it at least a tunable rather than an option?

Darren