Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:54:08 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <20000619155408.E17420@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000619153634.24385@hydrogen.funkthat.com>; from gurney_j@efn.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:36:34PM -0700 References: <20000619125345.H26801@fw.wintelcom.net> <3249.961452627@localhost> <20000619151809.C17420@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000619153634.24385@hydrogen.funkthat.com>
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* John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> [000619 15:36] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 19: > > * Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> [000619 15:10] wrote: > > > > It doesn't bother you at all that cdrom.com can push 100mbit > > > > and support 6000 users on FreeBSD but Joe Average FreeBSD User > > > > can't because the hacks used aren't available? > > > > > > Huh? What makes you think that cdrom.com uses "special hacks" to get > > > its performance? Have you actually talked to David Greenman about > > > this lately? > > > > I'm quite sure cdrom.com has at least a kernel address space hack. > > didn't dg already commit these fixes to the source tree: > dg 1999/03/11 10:28:47 PST > > Modified files: > sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 kernel.script > sys/i386/include pmap.h > Log: > Increased kernel virtual address space to 1GB. NOTE: You MUST have fixed > bootblocks in order to boot the kernel after this! Also note that this > change breaks BSDI BSD/OS compatibility. > Also increased default NKPT to 17 so that FreeBSD can boot on machines > with >=2GB of RAM. Booting on machines with exactly 4GB requires other > patches, not included. Last I heard, cdrom.com uses 2gigs of kernel virtual address space. And what part of: "Booting on machines with exactly 4GB requires other patches, not included" didn't you understand? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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