Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:05:03 -0400 From: Ender <ender@enderzone.com> To: Tz-Huan Huang <tzhuan@csie.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, koitsu@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is there any way to increase the KVM? Message-ID: <48429E7F.5000205@enderzone.com> In-Reply-To: <20080601085835.GA50415@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <6a7033710805302252v43a7b240x66ca3f5e3dd5fda4@mail.gmail.com> <319cceca0805311154w5f705b2cp771392cd86ba888@mail.gmail.com> <6a7033710805311201t4085edcpc2f1ac9fa554c000@mail.gmail.com> <319cceca0805311303o61729e0dta615c442b6bd03ce@mail.gmail.com> <6a7033710806010143y204341cepc43f7a14678f7736@mail.gmail.com> <20080601085835.GA50415@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 04:43:48PM +0800, Tz-Huan Huang wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Maslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Your are right PAE is for i386, i mean try running i386 freebsd with >>> PAE enabled rather than amd64. PAE will let you access 64GB which is >>> far than you got. >>> >> The whole 8G physical memory is available in our system, the point we >> concerned is that the kernel cannot use more than 2G memory in kernel >> space. >> > > Your concern is justified; I don't think Maslan understands what it is > you're describing. Yes, there is a 2GB limit for kmem_size. Yes, that > limit applies to both i386 (with or without PAE) and amd64. Yes, it's a > problem. And yes, it's absolutely a problem (especially when it comes > to ZFS). > > Exactly. If you have to use ZFS in production I would suggest the new 2008.05 opensolaris.com live cd / installer >> Since the server is on line now, we cannot re-install it to i386 to check this. >> We'll try it if we have spare machines. >> > > Don't bother -- it won't fix the problem you're reporting. > >
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