On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Michael R. Zucca wrote:

> > [regarding NKMEMCLUSTERS]
> Ah, I forgot about that. I'll give it a try. Perhaps we should bump this value
> up by default or is that bad for machines with a small amount of RAM?

the latter.

> Is there some way this value can be calculated by default or is it strictly a
> hand-tuneable item?

again, the latter.  the way things are currently structured, this would
open up a potential for deadlock.

if you're subscribed to tech-kern, however, you may have noticed
references to pool(9) from pk@netbsd.org.  paul is working on the pool
allocator to help resolve the problems that currently occur because UVM
structures are allocated out of kernel memory.  when it's completed, the
problem should be greatly relieved (if not virtually eliminated).

--scott