Subject: Re: Virtual Memory Issues on 2.0
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/12/2005 10:58:16
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:48:56AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 19:40:33 (+0100), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Virtual Memory Issues on 2.0
> >
> > Most likely you're running out of kmem_map entries. Check the current value
> > with "sysctl vm.nkmempages" and recompile a kernel with
> > 
> > options NKMEMPAGES=<some highter value>
> >
> > I run with 6144 on a dual-CPU ss10, and this seems to be enouth.
> 
> Earlier in another thread you said 6095.

Yes, it's 6095, I didn't have a shell on the machine when I wrote it.

> 
> But they're both very "odd" numbers.  How did you choose them?

6144 is 6MB (6 * 1024), and I though it was what I configured.
I don't know from where the 6095 comes ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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