On Monday 21 May 2012 01:12:01 Alan Cox wrote: ... > >>> BTW, apparently malloc(size, M_TEMP, M_NOWAIT) requests fail for size> > >>> 1G, even at boot time. Any ideas how to circumvent that (8.3-STABLE, > >>> amd64, 4G physical RAM)? > >> > >> I suspect that you need to increase the size of your kmem map. > > > > Huh any hints how should I achieve that? In desperation I placed > > > > vm.kmem_size=8G > > > > in /boot/loader.conf and got this: > > > > vm.kmem_map_free: 8123924480 > > vm.kmem_map_size: 8364032 > > vm.kmem_size_scale: 1 > > vm.kmem_size_max: 329853485875 > > vm.kmem_size_min: 0 > > vm.kmem_size: 8132288512 > > > > but malloc(2G) still fails... > > Here is at least one reason why it fails: > > void * > uma_large_malloc(int size, int wait) > > Note the type of "size". Can you malloc 1GB?
Uff, good catch... malloc(1G) works, malloc(1.99G) works, malloc(2G) doesn't! Anyhow, malloc(1G) is big enough for what I want to do ATM, I was just curious why it breaks with bigger requests. Thanks, Marko _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
