From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 3 17:34:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AD9106566C for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 17:34:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ache@vniz.net) Received: from vniz.net (vniz.net [194.87.13.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C848FC14 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 17:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vniz.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q83HY8jw001171 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 21:34:08 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@vniz.net) Received: (from ache@localhost) by localhost (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q83HY82O001170 for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 21:34:08 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 21:34:08 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120903173408.GA1031@vniz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Subject: Recent -stable show strange warning about kern.maxswzone X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:34:16 -0000 I have kern.maxswzone default (32m), and now start to see this message: warning: total configured swap (1048576 pages) exceeds maximum recommended amount (995904 pages). warning: increase kern.maxswzone or reduce amount of swap. As I read somewhere 32m of maxswzone is enough up to 7Gb of swap, but my swap is 4Gb only. I try to increase it in anyway up to 34m but nothing is changed. Should I just ignore this warning or need to increase it even more? For increase case, how I can guess needed value? -- http://ache.vniz.net/