Re: What is FreeBSD 12 equivalent to Linux' "sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=1280"?

What are the exceptions you are seeing?
That would be very informational.


Regards,
Ronald


Van: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Datum: 31 december 2021 04:33
Aan: lev@FreeBSD.org, Freebsd stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: Re: What is FreeBSD 12 equivalent to Linux' "sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=1280"?

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> 30.12.2021 20:09, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
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> > On 30.12.2021 14:48, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
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> >>>>   net-p2p/monero-cli shows a lot of exceptions on FreeBSD. Monero's github [1] says, that it needs "sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=1280" on Linux.
> >>>>   What is FreeBSD equivalent for this Linux' setting?
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> >>> Perhaps, you need to increase sysctl vm.max_wired that limits amount of mlock'ed memory for userland processes,
> >>> and don't forget about "memorylocked" limit for a process. 
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> >>   I have "vm.max_wired" absurdly high (because I thought it is in bytes):
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> >>   I wonder, what does it mean "1280" in Linux. If it is 1280 1MB pages, I need to increase limit. Looks like setting both max_wired and limit to 1.5GB helps, thank you!
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> >  Ooops, no, it doesn't help. It only postponed problem :-( Looks like I need to report this problem to upstream as new one.
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> Maybe it needs much more memory to mlock().
> I used these settings for sysutils/memtester to be able to mlock() and test
> most part of newly installed physical RAM, so I used to raise it upto 80% of total 2GB RAM
> and was able successfully run memtester within X session without any adverse effects.
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> I mean, try incresing it more.
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