Subject: Re: Simple thought...
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20020607T125823@wsrcc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/07/2002 13:00:45
woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> I.e. if you have tons of RAM (more than necessary for the active page
> sets of all your running processes) then make BUFCACHE (much) bigger:
>
> options BUFCACHE=25 # use up to 25% of RAM
From memory:
panic: cpu_startup: cannot allocate vm for buffers.
Normal startup looks like this:
total memory = 767 MB
avail memory = 707 MB
using 6144 buffers containing 39400 KB of memory
Am I hitting some other table overflow by asking for 25% of memory to
go to buffers?
-wolfgang
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