Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> writes: > Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de> writes: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:30:41PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > Speaking of which, I tried setting vm.kmem_size to 2G on a C2D system > > > with 4 GB RAM, but it simply panics: > > > > > > OK set vm.kmem_size=2G > > This sounds like there's a signed 32 bit limit somewhere. > Yes, this is really stupid - vm.kmem_size is an int. Thanks for setting > me on the right track. Actually, somebody pointed out to me that due to the memory model used, amd64 can only have 2 GB KVA, and that includes other things besides kmem, so even with the tunable bug fixed, the best I can hope for is probably 1.5 GB. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Mon Oct 08 2007 - 13:29:02 UTC
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