Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

2012-05-15 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 10 May 2012 14:33:12 -0400, Charles Owens a écrit : Hello, > Lastly, since we're talking about this (for the future) -- is > enabling of superpages generally recommended for amd64? They are enabled by default (at least on 9.0) $ sysctl vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled: 1 Re

Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

2012-05-10 Thread Charles Owens
On 5/10/12 12:37 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Charles Owens mailto:cow...@greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote: That's very helpful! I had read about that and wondered if it applied to i386. Should I have expected "superpages" to completely cure the condition.

Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

2012-05-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Charles Owens wrote: > That's very helpful! I had read about that and wondered if it applied to > i386. > > Should I have expected "superpages" to completely cure the condition... or > does it just help? Should I now be looking at tuning the related pmap > sys

Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

2012-05-10 Thread Charles Owens
That's very helpful! I had read about that and wondered if it applied to i386. Should I have expected "superpages" to completely cure the condition... or does it just help? Should I now be looking at tuning the related pmap sysctls to give further relief? Thanks! Charles On 5/10/12 11:2

Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

2012-05-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Charles Owens > wrote: > > > Hi fellow BSD-types, > > > > I have a buy system that forks lots of processes and I see repeatedly the > > message: "Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing > e

Re: superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

2012-05-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Charles Owens wrote: > Hi fellow BSD-types, > > I have a buy system that forks lots of processes and I see repeatedly the > message: "Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either > the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable". >

superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

2012-05-09 Thread Charles Owens
Hi fellow BSD-types, I have a buy system that forks lots of processes and I see repeatedly the message: "Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable". My research suggested that enabling the "superpages" feature