Subject: Re: Question on USE_TOPDOWN_VM kernel config option
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/11/2003 09:51:50
> 
> On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:22 PM, <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:
> > Yes and no. The system needs to allocate less physical memory at 
> > startup
> > than it did before, and there is no boot-time limit of the max number 
> > of
> > processes anymore.
> >
> > Setting MAXDSIZ to 1GB without USE_TOPDOWN_VM would make any system
> > run out of memory before it booted, with USE_TOPDOWN_VM it's not
> > affected at all.
> 
> Any reason that we shouldn't force USE_TOPDOWN_VM at this point in time?
>
Not that I can think of. I has worked stable for quite some time, and I'm
not even sure that the system will work stable without USE_TOPDOWN_VM.
I can take care of it later this afternoon.

-- Ragge