Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:30:50 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Greg Rowe <greg@uswest.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP Woes Message-ID: <199903111830.KAA08792@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:58:55 PST." <199903111758.JAA66670@apollo.backplane.com>
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>:Bingo !!! The system is a 1 gig of memory, 4 cpu's. Maxusers down to 64 solved >:the Fatal Trap problem. I'll try moving the number up in stages and see where >:it breaks. I had been using 256 and a couple times 512 in testing. Thanks. >: >:Greg > > Uh huh! > > David, hackers, Gentlemen! This is the third person to hit this problem. > It is especially nasty because the failure condition is not always > something easily traceable. I, for one, would personally like to see the > problem fixed and damn the BSDI compatibility. At the very least, we > have to panic when the kernel's page table is overrun! I've increased the KVA space to 1GB, which should be sufficient for most high-end applications while keeping happy the people who want large process address spaces (>2GB). I also fixed another problem that prevented machines with >=2GB of RAM from booting. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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