Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

At 08:11 AM 12/26/2007, Scott Long wrote:
How does one know if the vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem is set too high and are exhausting KVA ?

Panics, freezes, failure to exec new programs, failure to create pipes, etc.

Is there anyway to know ahead of time one is getting close to the stage where all those "bad things" start to happen ?

---Mike

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