Subject: Re: > 64 Mb machines running -current?
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/07/1996 09:33:53
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:00:15 +0100 (MET) 
 frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) wrote:

 > Are there people out there who are running -current (after the MAXBSIZE
 > change) on machines with a lot of mem (> 64Mb ?).

No, indeed, mine crashes because nbuf is computed to 1671, causing
the VA space for the buffer cache to explode, and kernel_map doens't
have any space for the buffer_map submap.  I'm ... highly annoyed.

Then again, there are some ports that can live with the change, and
don't suffer from this problem.  I'm tempted to replace the change
to MAXBSIZE I made with a default to 16k, but allow ports with a lot
of KVA space to make it larger.

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