On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 05:55:03PM +0100, Laurent CARON wrote: > > Le 28/11/2023 à 17:46, Claudio Jeker a écrit : > > The problem is that the symbol nkmempages moved into .bss and is therefor > > no longer modifiable by config(8). I think you can still use ukc via > > boot -c to alter it (but that is not sticky). > > > > The alternative is to set "option NKMEMPAGES=131072" in your GENERIC > > config file (or option NKMEMPAGES_MAX=131072). See also options(4). > > > > Long term is the fix this proper. All of this was built when computers had > > 100MB of memory not 100GB. > > > > Got it. Thanks. > > It means I'll stick with this kernel for now and see if it helps (it seems > promising for now). > > Is there a way you can submit this patch (option NKMEMPAGES=131072) to the > current branch ?
A better calculation logic for nkmempages was added to -current. On most 64bit archs nkmempages now scales to much larger values. See https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=170255507530513&w=2 for more details. -- :wq Claudio
