ollecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

[Eric Anderson]

On 08/07/06 14:49, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * 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.
> 


Thanks, that answered my question perfectly!

Eric


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