loader.conf issues
Weldon S Godfrey 3
weldon at excelsus.com
Thu Dec 4 05:38:27 PST 2008
Thanks,
I meant to update this earlier, it appears that the kmem tunables need a
larger cast in 7.x (to use beyond 4GB kernel memory map), I opened a
ticket yesterday.
If memory serves me right, sometime around Yesterday, eculp at casasponti.net...:
>
> Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon at excelsus.com> escribió:
>
>>
>> I did a quick search for this and didn't see anyone seeing this.
>>
>> I am running 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64
>>
>> This is my loader.conf:
>>
>> vm.kmem_size_max="16106127360"
>> vm.kmem_size="1073741824"
>> kern.maxvnodes="800000"
>
> I've always changed those variables in /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> ed
>
>>
>> However, this is what happens after reboot:
>>
>> store1# sysctl -a | grep kmem
>> vm.kmem_size_scale: 3
>> vm.kmem_size_max: 3221225472
>> vm.kmem_size_min: 0
>> vm.kmem_size: 1073741824
>> store1# sysctl -a | grep kern.maxvn
>> kern.maxvnodes: 100000
>> store1#
>>
>>
>> Is there some issue with vm.kmem_size_max being larger than 3G? If this has
>> been fixed, let me know. I am using 7.0-RELEASE loader from amd64 iso since
>> for some reason, when I complile a new loader on this Dell 2950-iii, I get
>> an unusable loader (it just hangs before the screen to select safe mode,
>> single user mode, etc).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Weldon
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