superpages not solving "PV entries" limit warning

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Charles Owens
> <cowens at greatbaysoftware.com>wrote:
>
> > Hi fellow BSD-types,
> >
> > I have a buy system that forks lots of processes and I see repeatedly the
> > message:  "Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing
> either
> > the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable".
> >
> > System details:
> >
> >  * 8.1-RELEASE-p2 i386 PAE kernel
> >  * 6 GB RAM
> >
>
> The warning is not applicable any longer including your version as well as
> several previous ones.  The warning has been removed from current releases.
>
>
For amd64, yes, but not i386.  It can't be removed from i386.

Alan