loader.conf issues

[Weldon S Godfrey 3]

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...:

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> Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon at excelsus.com> escribió:
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>> 
>> 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"
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> 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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