On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:14:33PM +0100, Janne Johansson wrote: > I cant say if the extra gig ram is the "obvious" killer here, the > first machine is a desktop and has scsi, the second a laptop with > sata but I gather the desktop 1G ram makes the kernel limit to 50k+ > vnodes instead of 100k+ and perhaps that makes the first machine > survive it.
I've managed 568k vnodes on amd64 with 8G ram, all while running make build in a loop. No issues so far. My other test machine didn't panic again.
