>> so how many kernel map entries do you have today?
>
>matt@amd64> pmap 0
>FFFF800000000000  21972K read/write/exec     [ anon ]
>FFFF800001575000   4372K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF8000019BA000 131072K read/write/exec     [ kmem_map ]
>FFFF8000099BA000  16384K read/write/exec     [ pager_map ]
>FFFF80000A9BA000   9756K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF80000B341000   4096K read/write/exec     [ exec_map ]
>FFFF80000B741000   1200K read/write/exec     [ phys_map ]
>FFFF80000B86D000   4096K read/write/exec     [ mb_map ]
>FFFF80000BC6D000   5764K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF80000C20E000   8192K read/write/exec     [ ubc_pager ]
>FFFF80000CA0E000  22092K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF80000DFAD000     76K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF80000DFC4000  61196K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF800011B8F000  46940K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF800014970000  48184K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF800017880000  15880K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>FFFF800018810000  32192K read/write/exec     [ uvm_aobj ]
>  total           433464K

mmmmmmuch better!  i presume the output of pmap -mvD8 0 indicates that
none of them would have been merged?

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