kmem_map auto-sizing and size dependencies

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 21 21:06:10 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:26:04AM -0800, mdf at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> >  Should it be set to a larger initial value based on min(physical,KVM) space
> >  available?
> 
> It needs to be smaller than the physical space, [...]

Or larger, as the address space can get fragmented and you might not be
able to allocate memory even if you have physical pages available.

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