On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, David Schmenk wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who responded.  It'll take a few more days to build 
> minicom to test out my connections.
>
> On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>> What does "sysctl vm.nkmempages" say? I believe the formula's been
>> changed in current. You change that via "options NKMEMPAGES" in the
>> kernel config. I would try 16384 pages, or half of available RAM.
>
> My kernel reports 8192 NKMEMPAGES.  Is that good or bad for 128 MB?  What 
> exactly does this correspond to? Thanks,

Pages are 4K, so that's 32MB. I think that means, that nothing doing 
kernel malloc() can ever chew up more than 32MB, so that rules out, 
for example, a simple memory leak in a driver.


Frederick