Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Fri Jun 17 09:37:49 GMT 2005


Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Looks like what basically happened is this these kern_malloc.c 
> changes increase the memory burden on UMA as statistics structures 
> for malloc types now get allocated from UMA.  It looks like, from 
> your dmesg, you have a fair number of modules loaded, so the storage 
> for the statistics comes out of the early UMA page pool, whereas 
> before it came out of BSS. We'll see if further tuning is required or 
> not with large numbers of modules.

I try to load as much as possible as modules. Can you quantify "large number
of modules"? I could load some more modules for testing purposes at the
weekend.

Bye,
Alexander.

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