Re: CVS commit: src/sys/external/bsd/drm/dist/bsd-core

[Lars Heidieker <lars%heidieker.de@localhost>]

On 01/31/2012 09:33 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:30:15PM +0100, Lars Heidieker wrote:
>> On 01/31/2012 07:43 PM, Matthias Drochner wrote:
>>> 
>>> tls%panix.com@localhost said:
>>>> This is on i386, or amd64?
>>> 
>>> i386, with i945 graphics.
>>> 
>>> best regards Matthias
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> you can change the amount of memory allocated to the kmem_arena
>> in uvm_km.c currently it's 2/3 of kva-space, probably it needs to
>> be a bit lower on kva limited machines.
> 
> Are pools backed by kmem?  If not, then aren't we about to starve 
> anything using the pool allocator, like, say, mbufs?
> 
> Thor
> 

all pools and kmem are backed by the kmem_arena.

lars