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| author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-11-08 11:59:38 +0000 |
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| committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-11-08 11:59:38 +0000 |
| commit | 4780de32f2215ac673e12a962d571b381f236903 (patch) | |
| tree | ba66796319436be511cb77b37871378579f202ea /sys | |
| parent | 5ea072fa21afef1e83ec555168661a7fd61cb1ef (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-4780de32f2215ac673e12a962d571b381f236903.zip FreeBSD-src-4780de32f2215ac673e12a962d571b381f236903.tar.gz | |
Document the per-arch default value of kern.maxbcache.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/boot/common/loader.8 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/boot/common/loader.8 b/sys/boot/common/loader.8 index d7d7568..5ba740c 100644 --- a/sys/boot/common/loader.8 +++ b/sys/boot/common/loader.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 8, 2007 +.Dd November 8, 2007 .Dt LOADER 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -591,7 +591,8 @@ Modifies kernel option .It Va kern.maxbcache Limits the amount of KVM reserved for use by the buffer cache, specified in bytes. -The default maximum is 200MB. +The default maximum is 200MB on i386, +and 400MB on amd64, sparc64, and sun4v. This parameter is used to prevent the buffer cache from eating too much KVM in large-memory machine configurations. |
