Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-28 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On 08/27/2012 17:23, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> On 08/22/2012 12:09, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > On 8/20/20

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-28 Thread Alan Cox
On 08/27/2012 17:23, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On 08/22/2012 12:09, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On 8/20/2012 8:26 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Gezeala M.

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-27 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On 08/22/2012 12:09, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> On 8/20/2012 8:26 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > >

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-23 Thread Alan Cox
On 08/22/2012 12:09, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On 8/20/2012 8:26 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Alan Cox wrote: On 08/18/2012 19:57, Gezeala M. B

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-22 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On 8/20/2012 8:26 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Alan Cox wrote: On 08/18/2012 19:57, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > >>>

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-21 Thread Alan Cox
On 8/20/2012 8:26 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Alan Cox wrote: On 08/18/2012 19:57, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On 08/17/2012 17:08, Gezeala M.

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 20/08/2012 17:22, Alan Cox wrote: > Try setting kern.maxbcache to two billion and adding 50 billion to the > setting of vm.kmem_size{,_max}. Just as a side-note: unless it has some side-effects, it is probably worth increasing these tunables by default, as RAM is very cheap again. 512 GB in a

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-20 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On 08/18/2012 19:57, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On 08/17/2012 17:08, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > > On

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-20 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > On 08/18/2012 19:57, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> On 08/17/2012 17:08, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > vm.kmem_siz

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
On 08/18/2012 19:57, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On 08/17/2012 17:08, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: vm.kmem_size controls the maximum size of the kernel's heap, i.e., the region where the kernel

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-18 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On 08/17/2012 17:08, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> vm.kmem_size controls the maximum size of the kernel's heap, i.e., the >>> region where the kernel's slab and malloc()-like memory al

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-18 Thread Alan Cox
On 08/17/2012 17:08, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: vm.kmem_size controls the maximum size of the kernel's heap, i.e., the region where the kernel's slab and malloc()-like memory allocators obtain their memory. While this heap may occupy the larges

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-17 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > vm.kmem_size controls the maximum size of the kernel's heap, i.e., the > region where the kernel's slab and malloc()-like memory allocators obtain > their memory. While this heap may occupy the largest portion of the > kernel's virtual address sp

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-17 Thread Alan Cox
vm.kmem_size controls the maximum size of the kernel's heap, i.e., the region where the kernel's slab and malloc()-like memory allocators obtain their memory. While this heap may occupy the largest portion of the kernel's virtual address space, it cannot occupy the entirety of the address spac

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-17 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Andrey Zonov wrote: >> On 8/17/12 7:15 AM, Marie Bacuno II wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 18:47, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-16 Thread Andrey Zonov
On 8/17/12 7:15 AM, Marie Bacuno II wrote: On Aug 16, 2012, at 18:47, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: Hello fellow listers, On a server with 512GB RAM it appears that vm.kmem_size_ma

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-16 Thread Marie Bacuno II
On Aug 16, 2012, at 18:47, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II >> wrote: >>> Hello fellow listers, >>> >>> On a server with 512GB RAM it appears that vm.kmem_size_max is not >>> being auto-tun

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II > wrote: >> Hello fellow listers, >> >> On a server with 512GB RAM it appears that vm.kmem_size_max is not >> being auto-tuned to use >329853485875 (~307GB). >> >> On this machine vm.km

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > Hello fellow listers, > > On a server with 512GB RAM it appears that vm.kmem_size_max is not > being auto-tuned to use >329853485875 (~307GB). > > On this machine vm.kmem_size is equal to vm.kmem_size_max > > # from sysctl > vm.kmem_si

vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-16 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
Hello fellow listers, On a server with 512GB RAM it appears that vm.kmem_size_max is not being auto-tuned to use >329853485875 (~307GB). On this machine vm.kmem_size is equal to vm.kmem_size_max # from sysctl vm.kmem_size_max: 329853485875 vm.kmem_size: 329853485875 On a machine with 1GB of RAM