Re: NMBCLUSTERS problem on a Dockstar (Sheevaplug)

[Sujit K M <sjt.kar%gmail.com@localhost>]

Try running memtester.

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/sysutils/memtester/README.html

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Sujit K M <sjt.kar%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2011/04/23/msg001557.html
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> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Sujit K M <sjt.kar%gmail.com@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/#mclpool-limit
>>>> Did you reboot after kernel compilation.
>>
>> Ahh, yes to everything. I rebuilt the kernel so I would have to reboot
>> to use it.
>>
>> That link is not relevant here since I tried setting the sysctl (in my
>> original email), and it's not possible to use gdb to patch the u-boot
>> kernel which lives on the FAT partition. And I already tried
>> hardcoding the NMBCLUSTERS option into the kernel config but it didn't
>> work, as I was saying.
>>
>> I believe I'm hitting a maximum calculated value based on installed
>> memory, or something, which might be fixed or at least has probably
>> changed recently:
>>
>> http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-6.0.html#network
>>
>> The code around this seems to indicate that it's a calculated value
>> based on some hardware specific stuff, and I'm quickly out of skill
>> once it gets that far.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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