vm.kmem_size and ZFS on 9-CURRENT

Mon May 10 23:19:05 UTC 2010

According to Bruce Cran:
> ZFS on my desktop running 9-CURRENT amd64 with 6GB RAM. In the process of 
> copying data off /var to convert it too, I got the "kmem_map too small" panic, 
> which led me to the thread at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-
> current/2010-April/016984.html which appears to conclude that the defaults 
> even on -CURRENT aren't suitable and that vm.kmem_size needs tuned to be 
> 2xRAM.

I'm currently using kmem_size ="6G" on a 6GB machine and have got no
panic at all. (using the full zfs option though).

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