Subject: Re: -current breakage
To: None <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/20/1998 23:00:45
Paul Goyette wrote:
> Let me also add that my IIci with 80MB RAM is running up-to-yesterday
> -current including UVM and PMAP_NEW, with no ill effects.  Of course,
> with my 1GB swap partition, I had to bump NKMEMCLUSTERS to 8192 to
> handle the size of the UVM swap data structures.

Ok... yeah, it crossed my mind, but I have twice as large
NKMEMCLUSTERS as the default, and I thought that was enough...
I'll try to bump it to 8192.

Thanks,

Ken

> On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Scott Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > for what it's worth, all 4 systems i have here -- IIx, IIci, IIfx, and
> > LC476 -- are running up-to-the-minute current, UVM-enabled kernels.  if
> > you have lots of RAM and/or run processes that tend to consume large
> > amounts of RAM, you should strongly consider bumping NKMEMCLUSTERS to some
> > value between 2048 and 8192.  (as i rcall, the default for kernels without
> > the GATEWAY option is 512, and with GATEWAY it's 1024.)