Re: mlockall() and small memory systems

2012-06-03 Thread Martin Husemann
So, some further investigation shows that on sparc (but not sparc64) the vmspace for userland processes is pretty huge - the t_mincore test already has a vmspace vm-vm_map.size value of 9118 pages before it even does the first mmap. Given the low resource limits cited upthread (~3500 locked pages)

Re: Unit confusion in kinfo_proc2

2012-06-03 Thread David Laight
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 02:58:15PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: It seems there is confusion wether a vmpsace vm_map.size element is measured in bytes or pages. The uvm code seems to treat it as bytes, so I guess we should apply something like this patch? All the uses I found (building amd64

Re: lwp resource limit

2012-06-03 Thread Mindaugas Rasiukevicius
chris...@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote: Hello, This is a new resource limit to prevent users from exhausting kernel resources that lwps use. ... comments? Few comments on the patch: Index: kern/init_main.c ===

Re: selectively disabling atime updates?

2012-06-03 Thread David Holland
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:03:13PM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote: How about using fss for it instead. Well, the point is not that I primarily don't want the atimes to reflect the backup access. I primarily want to save the time spent on the update. A find is aproximately twice as fast with

Re: lwp resource limit

2012-06-03 Thread David Young
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:37:19PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: Hello, This is a new resource limit to prevent users from exhausting kernel resources that lwps use. - The limit is per uid - The default is 1024 per user unless the architecture overrides it - The kernel is never