Subject: Re: kernal panic in NetBSD 1.3...
To: Luke Miller <millerlu@peak.org>
From: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/01/1999 02:26:47
On 941434899 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Luke Miller wrote:
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>Looking in /usr/include/machine/param.h I see:
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>#define NKMEMCLUSTERS (6 * 1024 * 1024 / CLBYTES)
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>Doing the math there, 6 * 1024 * 1024 I get 6291456, unless I am missing
>something here. What would be a good value to set NKMEMCLUSTERS to?
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>Luke
Don't forget to divide by CLBYTES. Basically this is the number
of pages (except on systems where CLSIZE != 1, IIRC i386 is not
one of those.) So, CLBYTES = 4096, so NKMEMCLUSTERS = 1536 by
default. As suggested in a later email, you might double it, until
it works.
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