From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 13 22:37:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA27127 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 22:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA27121 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 22:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA20202; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:35:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: David Greenman cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: pmap_zero_page and kmem_malloc panics In-Reply-To: <199604140358.UAA02986@Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, David Greenman wrote: > > 1) The calculation didn't account for NMBCLUSTERS, so if a large number of > clusters was specified, it would leave little or no space for kernel > malloc. Yep, this definitely would be the case... as I mentioned, I've got NMBCLUSTERS jacked up to 8192 on the Web/FTP machine since I've seen it spike over 5000 several times. BTW, does NMBCLUSTERS have to be a power-2 number, or is that just "convention"? > I strongly encourage you to upgrade the affected machines to -stable. Thanks, David. I will do so immediately. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"