On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Davide Italiano <dav...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> > > Hi Adrian, > >> Please try it out on a -10 VM with something RAM limited - say, 128mb w/ >> GENERIC. See how it behaves. >> >> I've successfully done buildworlds on 10-i386 with 128mb RAM. Let's try not >> to break that before releng/10 is cut. >> >> thanks, >> >> > > This is not supposed to hit 10-STABLE, at least not before proper > review. This is the reason why it was proposed on mailing lists. Also, > if you read the patch you'll end up with realizing this should behave > better on low memory environment because it unconditionally cleans 10% > of the cache every time. Previous changes in this area just did the > opposite keeping a lot more of memory around. I hope this makes sense > to you. > > Thanks, > > -- > Davide > > "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more > or less solved" -- Henri Poincare
Also, right now you can set up a value which indicates the percentage of memory you can reclaim. It's 10% by default, but we can discuss if this could be adjusted to a more reasonable default. Feel free to give your opinion. -- Davide "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved" -- Henri Poincare _______________________________________________ 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"
