On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 08:09:49PM -0600, seebs@plethora.net wrote:
> In message <19981113200343.L7986@pr.mcs.net>, Alex Nash writes:
> >If anyone has advice or a similar config they could share, it would be
> >greatly appreciated.
> 
> Well, this sounds *EXACTLY* like a problem I just saw, but that problem
> was admittedly with BSD/OS.  Anyway, if you increase NKPDE, as I recall,
> you may be changing... where the stack is.  So it's sort of a bit of a
> risk.  :)

Ok, I won't go there then :)  Just to clarify, I haven't yet played with
NKPDE -- the system selected an NKPDE of NKPDE_MAX on its own.

> I seem to recall that there's only so much you can do, and
> past that, you're better off using a newer and smarter VM system if possible.

The BSDs with smarter VM systems we've tried, FreeBSD 2.2/3.0 and
BSD/OS 4.0 crashed during our NFS tests :(

Alex