sparc64/164227: commit references a PR

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:30:15PM +0000, dfilter service wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR sparc64/164227; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: dfilter at FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service)
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: sparc64/164227: commit references a PR
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:25:55 +0000 (UTC)
> 
>  Author: marius
>  Date: Fri Jan 27 22:25:46 2012
>  New Revision: 230630
>  URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230630
>  
>  Log:
>    For machines where the kernel address space is unrestricted increase
>    VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE to 2, awaiting more insight from alc at . As it turns
>    out, the VM apparently has problems with machines that have large holes
>    in the physical address space, causing the kmem_suballoc() call in
>    kmeminit() to fail with a VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE of 1. Using a value of 2
>    allows these, namely Blade 1500 with 2GB of RAM, to boot.

just to confirm that I can boot r230767M on my blade 1500 with 2GB ram.

Many thanks

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