limit on PV entries

Julien Cigar jcigar at ulb.ac.be
Wed Feb 1 10:01:47 UTC 2012


Did you explicitly disabled superpages?
What is the output of $ sysctl vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled ?

On 02/01/2012 10:17, n dhert wrote:
> FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
>> From time to time, I get in /var/log/messages
>   kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either
> the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.
>
> this started a few weeks ago, never had that before, don't have it on other
> FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE systems.
>
> - What does this mean?
> - And how to increase either of the two and to what level ?
>
> $ sysctl vm.pmap.shpgperproc
> vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200
> $ sysctl vm.pmap.pv_entry_max
> vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 3256966
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