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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_object.c src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c
In-Reply-To: <199710250315.NAA28261@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 25, 97 01:15:52 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:14:05 -0500 (EST)
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Bruce Evans said:
> >  Modified files:
> >    sys/vm               vm_map.c vm_object.c 
> >    sys/i386/i386        pmap.c 
> >  Log:
> >  Decrease the initial allocation for the zone allocations.
> 
> The initial allocation is still huge.  224K of real memory is statically
> allocated for pvinit[8192] alone.  3/4 of this normally remains free on
> my 32MB system.
> 
I guess that could be made smaller.  That is not really the "zone allocator"
but one of the clients (pmap.)  The key is to make it large enough to boot,
maybe should be allocated with kmem_alloc..

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