On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Pete French wrote:
> > I'm running 7-STABLE as of Feb 26 or so. Commit r187466 on Jan 20 bumped
> up
> > kmem_size_max on amd64 to 3.6GB:
> >
> > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=187466
>
> M now I am wworried about upgrading to STA
> I'm running 7-STABLE as of Feb 26 or so. Commit r187466 on Jan 20 bumped up
> kmem_size_max on amd64 to 3.6GB:
>
> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=187466
M now I am wworried about upgrading to STABLE! ;) I can't
think of a reason why I am seeing what I am seein
In the last episode (Mar 01), Pete French said:
> > You've probably reduced kmem_size from the default. I don't set
> > anything on my 6 GB amd64 system, and I get:
> >
> > $ sysctl vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max
> > vm.kmem_size: 2061496320
> > vm.kmem_size_max: 3865468109
> >
> > I assume your 16
> You've probably reduced kmem_size from the default. I don't set anything on
> my 6 GB amd64 system, and I get:
>
> $ sysctl vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max
> vm.kmem_size: 2061496320
> vm.kmem_size_max: 3865468109
>
> I assume your 16GB system would default to even larger numbers. What values
> d
In the last episode (Feb 28), Pete French said:
> So, I have a farm of machines runnign 7.1/amd64, all of which have 16 gig
> of memory in them. This afternoon, as an experiment, I altered
> loader.conf to have these two lines in it:
>
> vm.kmem_size="1536M"
> vm.kmem_size_max="1536M"
>
> This i
So, I have a farm of machines runnign 7.1/amd64, all of which have 16 gig of
memory in them. This afternoon, as an experiment, I altered loader.conf
to have these two lines in it:
vm.kmem_size="1536M"
vm.kmem_size_max="1536M"
This is what I do on machines running ZFS - these machines are not, how
