ollecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

[Thomas Hurst]

* Eric Anderson (anderson at centtech.com) wrote:

> I saw these two warnings come up soon after rebooting a server
> (running 5-STABLE):
>
> kernel: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC
> kernel: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC
>
> I see there is a tunable for tweaking, but I'm not certain what I'm
> really tweaking.  Any hints or guidelines?

PV entries are related to the amount of memory that's shared between
processes.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000695.html
explains a bit.

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Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
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