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| author | adrian <adrian@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-02 08:12:41 +0000 |
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| committer | adrian <adrian@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-02 08:12:41 +0000 |
| commit | f77596bc521b671974f181500d0c32e3836d24ab (patch) | |
| tree | 8fec5ff20005a2e63f6c543dde0d2283693dceee /UPDATING | |
| parent | 4c5c303d09338e8dee2f5b87db2a9c5e75f9a337 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-f77596bc521b671974f181500d0c32e3836d24ab.zip FreeBSD-src-f77596bc521b671974f181500d0c32e3836d24ab.tar.gz | |
Disable the ctl driver in GENERIC.
It unfortunately steals a fair chunk of RAM at startup even if it's not
actively used, which prevents FreeBSD VMs of 128MB from successfully
booting and running.
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW: disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20130301: + The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. + This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system + initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if + a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system + unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. + 20130208: A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. |
