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-rw-r--r--sys/i386/conf/NOTES6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/NOTES b/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
index e17f747..1a28d4a 100644
--- a/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
@@ -1045,7 +1045,11 @@ options PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=201
# constraints in loader(8) on i386, this must be a multiple of 4.
# 256 = 1 GB of kernel address space. Increasing this also causes
# a reduction of the address space in user processes. 512 splits
-# the 4GB cpu address space in half (2GB user, 2GB kernel).
+# the 4GB cpu address space in half (2GB user, 2GB kernel). For PAE
+# kernels, the value will need to be double non-PAE. A value of 1024
+# for PAE kernels is necessary to split the address space in half.
+# This will likely need to be increased to handle memory sizes >4GB.
+# PAE kernels default to a value of 512.
#
options KVA_PAGES=260
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