On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 06:34:06AM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> Le Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:57:34 -0500
> Andrew Brown a ecrit :
> > it used to be the case that my (i386/1.6ZI) kernel_map had around 20
> > or so entries (as indicated by "pmap 0 | wc -l" (yes, i know that's
> > off by one)).  nowadays, my kernel loiters between ~2600 and ~2900,
> > most of which look like they ought to be mergeable.  that's a large
> > change.
> > 
> > is anyone else seeing this behavior?
> 
> Is it related to the fact that it gets very hard to allocate large chunks
> of device memory, such as the kind of blocks umass(4) uses?

I think so, yes.  I am starting to seriously question the validity of
disabling kernel map merging as a workaround to a single bug that most
users probably never saw... :-/

Thor