Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:25:34 +0100 From: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to increase kernel VM? Message-ID: <20020309212534.GA12696@crow.dom2ip.de> In-Reply-To: <200203092110.g29LAxW00927@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200203092110.g29LAxW00927@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, 2002/03/09 at 16:10:59 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I've been running Jake's March 7th kernel (once I finally copied it > into the right location), and noted that the kernel memory limits seem > absurdly low -- so low, in fact, that my Ultra 5 has deadlocked in > `cvs co' several times as a result of running into the kmem limit for > FFS nodes: > > FFS node 8467 4234K 4670K 6144K 35726 0 0 512 > > This machine thought that maxvnodes ought to be 19275, which would > have required at least 9640K of memory just for FFS nodes. > > Things seem to be working reasonanbly now that I have lowered > maxvnodes to 8192, and vnlru appears to actually be running, but I > would obviously prefer to have a more reasonably-sized kernel malloc > arena. This should alredy be fixed in the p4 repository (the definition of VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE was missing from sparc64/include/vmparam.h). An updated kernel should be available soon. - thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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