svn commit: r242847 - in head/sys: i386/include kern

[Eitan Adler]

On 10 November 2012 12:45, Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 10 November 2012 12:04, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>>> Sure, if you'd like you can help me craft that comment now?
>>
>> I think this is short and clear:
>> ===
>> Limit the amount of kernel address space used to a fixed cap.
>> 384 is an arbitrarily chosen value that leaves 270 MB of KVA available
>> of the 2 MB total. On systems with large amount of memory reduce the
>> the slope of the function in order to avoiding exhausting KVA.
>> ===
>
> That's actually completely 100% incorrect...

okay. I'm going by the log messages posted so far. I have no idea how
this works. Can you explain it better?


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