Re: Bug#696786: please adjust MFSROOT_LIMIT; adjust lowmem thresholds

2012-12-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Thu 27 Dec 2012 21:21:33 +, a écrit : > I've tested and have numbers for kfreebsd-i386 now. Please find patches > attached for this, and an explanation below. Ok, thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Bug#696786: please adjust MFSROOT_LIMIT; adjust lowmem thresholds

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, I've tested and have numbers for kfreebsd-i386 now. Please find patches attached for this, and an explanation below. > But the MFSROOT_LIMIT for 32-bit is already at its maximum, [...] Under normal circumstances the highest usage I've seen is ~37 MiB, so MFSROOT_LIMIT := 42m is fine for no

Re: Bug#696786: please adjust MFSROOT_LIMIT; adjust lowmem thresholds

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi Samuel, On 27/12/12 09:56, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I've applied your patches. Thank you for that. > How about i386? Does its MFSROOT_LIMIT perhaps need to be increased? I > have updated its lowmem figures to match 128/224 too. I really haven't tested this for kfreebsd-i386 yet. But the M

Re: Bug#696786: please adjust MFSROOT_LIMIT; adjust lowmem thresholds

2012-12-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I've applied your patches. Steven Chamberlain, le Thu 27 Dec 2012 04:27:40 +, a écrit : > diff --git a/build/Makefile b/build/Makefile > index 60d1845..1e5952d 100644 > --- a/build/Makefile > +++ b/build/Makefile > @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ endef > ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),kfreebsd-i386) > M

Re: Bug#696786: please adjust MFSROOT_LIMIT; adjust lowmem thresholds

2012-12-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Thu 27 Dec 2012 04:27:40 +, a écrit : > We could (later?) try to lower that threshold, because on kFreeBSD the > text-mode installer lacks support for a number of languages, therefore > we'd like the GTK installer to be available wherever possible. You'd probably want to

Re: Bug#696786: please adjust MFSROOT_LIMIT; adjust lowmem thresholds

2012-12-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, Please use this amended patch for lowmem limits. The other patches are unchanged. I found a reason to force lowmem mode: ZFS. If the partman-zfs module is loaded, there is a risk of ZFS exhausting available memory, e.g. if an old ZFS volume is found on one of the disks. level2 lowmem mode

Bug#696786: please adjust MFSROOT_LIMIT; adjust lowmem thresholds

2012-12-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Control: -1 tags + patch Hi, Please consider lowering MFSROOT_LIMIT to 72m on kfreebsd-amd64. The initial size of data in the installer MFS roots are: ~/debian-installer/build/tmp$ du -xm --max-depth=0 */tree | sort -bn 9 cdrom_grub/tree 10 netboot/tree 10 netboot-9/tree 37