Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:38:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changes to rc.diskless* Message-ID: <20020222153834.A67327@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020222141322.A27577@locore.ca>; from jake@locore.ca on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:13:22PM -0500 References: <20020221200050.A78243@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020222141322.A27577@locore.ca>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:13:22PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > echo "+++ mount_md of /var"
> > -mount_md ${varsize:=65536} /var 1
> > +mount_md ${varsize:=32m} /var 1
>
> One problem with making the mds so big is that it uses type malloc
> which afaict uses malloc(9) to get the backing store.
I only changed the syntax for the size to something easier to read, but
not the size itself.
> much with M_WAITOK you might go to sleep and never be woken up. It
> might be better to use type vnode with file or swap based backing
> store.
No opinion :-)
> sparc64 machines tend to have more ram than older pcs that
> this might also be used on :)
one can set varsize=2m in /etc/rc.conf is they need to. :-)
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