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

[Peter Wemm]

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...

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