Subject: Re: Kernel Issues, BUFPAGES and -mcpu/-march
To: Jeff Laughlin <jlaughli@vtc.edu>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/07/2002 21:33:13
At 12:11 AM 3/8/2002 -0500, Jeff Laughlin wrote:
>Howdy
>
>My old 1.5.2 kernel had
>options       BUFPAGES=800
>
>I tried recompiling the kernel using
>makeoptions     COPTS="-mcpu=604e"
>options         BUFPAGES=2048

Since a BUFPAGE is 64KB so you are in one shot consuming 1/2 of the
the total KVA available and that may not be enough for the system to
run it.


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