On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:26:04AM -0800, m...@freebsd.org wrote: >> > Should it be set to a larger initial value based on min(physical,KVM) >> > space >> > available? >> >> It needs to be smaller than the physical space, [...] > > Or larger, as the address space can get fragmented and you might not be > able to allocate memory even if you have physical pages available.
+1 for relaxing upper limit. I routinely patch all my systems that use ZFS to allow kmem_map size to be larger than physical memory. Otherwise on a system where most of RAM goes towards ZFS ARC I used to eventually run into dreaded kmem_map too small panic. --Artem _______________________________________________ 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"
