Re: mdconfig using malloc()

2007-07-02 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 29 June 2007, Shawn O'Connor wrote: > On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > On Thursday 28 June 2007, Shawn O'Connor wrote: > >> Guys, > >> > >> I'm trying to do the following: > >> > >> mdconfig -a -t malloc -o reserve -s 2g > > > > You really don't want to do this. mdc

Re: mdconfig using malloc()

2007-06-29 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 29 June 2007 03:01, Shawn O'Connor wrote: > >> I saw some old post advocated using -t swap instead, saying that swap > >> probably wouldn't be used until real memory was consumed. But, on my > >> 6.2 machine that immediately raises the swap usage to 2GB and does > >> use disk instead of R

Re: mdconfig using malloc()

2007-06-28 Thread Shawn O'Connor
On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 28 June 2007, Shawn O'Connor wrote: Guys, I'm trying to do the following: mdconfig -a -t malloc -o reserve -s 2g You really don't want to do this. mdconfig will try to allocate 2G of wired memory, which will obviously fail, be

Re: mdconfig using malloc()

2007-06-28 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 28 June 2007, Shawn O'Connor wrote: > Guys, > > I'm trying to do the following: > > mdconfig -a -t malloc -o reserve -s 2g You really don't want to do this. mdconfig will try to allocate 2G of wired memory, which will obviously fail, because you really don't have that much kernel memo