kvm on amd64 - >6G?

[Oliver Fromme]

Barry Boes wrote:
 > With the advent of ZFS, Solaris users are devoting 30G or more to
 > their ARC caches today.  If FreeBSD 8 is going to up the KVM size, is
 > there a reason to not increase the limit to something that will not be
 > reached in the lifetime of 8?  100GB?

I think Alan Cox recently increased the kmem limit in
8-current from 1.5 GB to 7 GB, and the default is 4.2 GB.

http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=180311

I don't know if this will be MFCed.  It will not be in
7.1-Release; it's too late for that.

Best regards
   Oliver

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