amd64: change VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE to 1?
Andriy Gapon
avg at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 17 15:32:51 UTC 2010
on 17/09/2010 16:00 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Friday, September 17, 2010 3:27:52 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 30/07/2010 23:14 John Baldwin said the following:
>>> I think this is much better. My strawman was rather hackish in that it was
>>> layering a hack on top of the existing calculations. I prefer your approach.
>>> I do not think penalizing amd64 machines with less than 1.5GB is a big worry
>>> as most x86 machines with a small amount of memory are probably running as
>>> i386 anyway. Given that, I would probably lean towards 1/8 instead of 1/7,
>>> but I would be happy with either one.
>>
>> Alan, John,
>>
>> are you planning to commit the vnodes limit patch or a version of it?
>
> I thought Alan had committed it already?
Oops, missed this one. Thanks a lot!
> Author: alc
> Date: Mon Aug 2 21:33:36 2010
> New Revision: 210782
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210782
>
> Log:
> Update the "desiredvnodes" calculation. In particular, make the part of
> the calculation that is based on the kernel's heap size more conservative.
> Hopefully, this will eliminate the need for MAXVNODES_MAX, but for the
> time being set MAXVNODES_MAX to a large value.
>
> Reviewed by: jhb@
> MFC after: 6 weeks
>
> Looks like its MFC timer has likely triggered even.
>
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Andriy Gapon
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