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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)d.t 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93 +.\" +.\".ds RH "Data Structure Sizing Rules +.bp +.LG +.B +.ce +APPENDIX D. VAX KERNEL DATA STRUCTURE SIZING RULES +.sp +.R +.NL +.PP +Certain system data structures are sized at compile time +according to the maximum number of simultaneous users expected, +while others are calculated at boot time based on the +physical resources present, e.g. memory. This appendix lists +both sets of rules and also includes some hints on changing +built-in limitations on certain data structures. +.SH +Compile time rules +.PP +The file \fI/sys/conf\|/param.c\fP contains the definitions of +almost all data structures sized at compile time. This file +is copied into the directory of each configured system to allow +configuration-dependent rules and values to be maintained. +(Each copy normally depends on the copy in /sys/conf, +and global modifications cause the file to be recopied unless +the makefile is modified.) +The rules implied by its contents are summarized below (here +MAXUSERS refers to the value defined in the configuration file +in the ``maxusers'' rule). +Most limits are computed at compile time and stored in global variables +for use by other modules; they may generally be patched in the system +binary image before rebooting to test new values. +.IP \fBnproc\fP +.br +The maximum number of processes which may be running at any time. +It is referred to in other calculations as NPROC and is defined to be +.DS +20 + 8 * MAXUSERS +.DE +.IP \fBntext\fP +.br +The maximum number of active shared text segments. +The constant is intended to allow for network servers and common commands +that remain in the table. +It is defined as +.DS +36 + MAXUSERS. +.DE +.IP \fBninode\fP +.br +The maximum number of files in the file system which may be +active at any time. This includes files in use by users, as +well as directory files being read or written by the system +and files associated with bound sockets in the UNIX IPC domain. +It is defined as +.DS +(NPROC + 16 + MAXUSERS) + 32 +.DE +.IP \fBnfile\fP +.br +The number of ``file table'' structures. One file +table structure is used for each open, unshared, file descriptor. +Multiple file descriptors may reference a single file table +entry when they are created through a \fIdup\fP call, or as the +result of a \fIfork\fP. This is defined to be +.DS +16 * (NPROC + 16 + MAXUSERS) / 10 + 32 +.DE +.IP \fBncallout\fP +.br +The number of ``callout'' structures. One callout +structure is used per internal system event handled with +a timeout. Timeouts are used for terminal delays, +watchdog routines in device drivers, protocol timeout processing, etc. +This is defined as +.DS +16 + NPROC +.DE +.IP \fBnclist\fP +.br +The number of ``c-list'' structures. C-list structures are +used in terminal I/O, and currently each holds 60 characters. +Their number is defined as +.DS +60 + 12 * MAXUSERS +.DE +.IP \fBnmbclusters\fP +.br +The maximum number of pages which may be allocated by the network. +This is defined as 256 (a quarter megabyte of memory) in /sys/h/mbuf.h. +In practice, the network rarely uses this much memory. It starts off +by allocating 8 kilobytes of memory, then requesting more as +required. This value represents an upper bound. +.IP \fBnquota\fP +.br +The number of ``quota'' structures allocated. Quota structures +are present only when disc quotas are configured in the system. One +quota structure is kept per user. This is defined to be +.DS +(MAXUSERS * 9) / 7 + 3 +.DE +.IP \fBndquot\fP +.br +The number of ``dquot'' structures allocated. Dquot structures +are present only when disc quotas are configured in the system. +One dquot structure is required per user, per active file system quota. +That is, when a user manipulates a file on a file system on which +quotas are enabled, the information regarding the user's quotas on +that file system must be in-core. This information is cached, so +that not all information must be present in-core all the time. +This is defined as +.DS +NINODE + (MAXUSERS * NMOUNT) / 4 +.DE +where NMOUNT is the maximum number of mountable file systems. +.LP +In addition to the above values, the system page tables (used to +map virtual memory in the kernel's address space) are sized at +compile time by the SYSPTSIZE definition in the file /sys/vax/vmparam.h. +This is defined to be +.DS +20 + MAXUSERS +.DE +pages of page tables. +Its definition affects +the size of many data structures allocated at boot time because +it constrains the amount of virtual memory which may be addressed +by the running system. This is often the limiting factor +in the size of the buffer cache, in which case a message is printed +when the system configures at boot time. +.SH +Run-time calculations +.PP +The most important data structures sized at run-time are those used in +the buffer cache. Allocation is done by allocating physical memory +(and system virtual memory) immediately after the system +has been started up; look in the file /sys/vax/machdep.c. +The amount of physical memory which may be allocated to the buffer +cache is constrained by the size of the system page tables, among +other things. While the system may calculate +a large amount of memory to be allocated to the buffer cache, +if the system page +table is too small to map this physical +memory into the virtual address space +of the system, only as much as can be mapped will be used. +.PP +The buffer cache is comprised of a number of ``buffer headers'' +and a pool of pages attached to these headers. Buffer headers +are divided into two categories: those used for swapping and +paging, and those used for normal file I/O. The system tries +to allocate 10% of the first two megabytes and 5% of the remaining +available physical memory for the buffer +cache (where \fIavailable\fP does not count that space occupied by +the system's text and data segments). If this results in fewer +than 16 pages of memory allocated, then 16 pages are allocated. +This value is kept in the initialized variable \fIbufpages\fP +so that it may be patched in the binary image (to allow tuning +without recompiling the system), +or the default may be overridden with a configuration-file option. +For example, the option \fBoptions BUFPAGES="3200"\fP +causes 3200 pages (3.2M bytes) to be used by the buffer cache. +A sufficient number of file I/O buffer headers are then allocated +to allow each to hold 2 pages each. +Each buffer maps 8K bytes. +If the number of buffer pages is larger than can be mapped +by the buffer headers, the number of pages is reduced. +The number of buffer headers allocated +is stored in the global variable \fInbuf\fP, +which may be patched before the system is booted. +The system option \fBoptions NBUF="1000"\fP forces the allocation +of 1000 buffer headers. +Half as many swap I/O buffer headers as file I/O buffers +are allocated, +but no more than 256. +.SH +System size limitations +.PP +As distributed, the sum of the virtual sizes of the core-resident +processes is limited to 256M bytes. The size of the text +segment of a single process is currently limited to 6M bytes. +It may be increased to no greater than the data segment size limit +(see below) by redefining MAXTSIZ. +This may be done with a configuration file option, +e.g. \fBoptions MAXTSIZ="(10*1024*1024)"\fP +to set the limit to 10 million bytes. +Other per-process limits discussed here may be changed with similar options +with names given in parentheses. +Soft, user-changeable limits are set to 512K bytes for stack (DFLSSIZ) +and 6M bytes for the data segment (DFLDSIZ) by default; +these may be increased up to the hard limit +with the \fIsetrlimit\fP\|(2) system call. +The data and stack segment size hard limits are set by a system configuration +option to one of 17M, 33M or 64M bytes. +One of these sizes is chosen based on the definition of MAXDSIZ; +with no option, the limit is 17M bytes; with an option +\fBoptions MAXDSIZ="(32*1024*1024)"\fP (or any value between 17M and 33M), +the limit is increased to 33M bytes, and values larger than 33M +result in a limit of 64M bytes. +You must be careful in doing this that you have adequate paging space. +As normally configured , the system has 16M or 32M bytes per paging area, +depending on disk size. +The best way to get more space is to provide multiple, thereby +interleaved, paging areas. +Increasing the virtual memory limits results in interleaving of +swap space in larger sections (from 500K bytes to 1M or 2M bytes). +.PP +By default, the virtual memory system allocates enough memory +for system page tables mapping user page tables +to allow 256 megabytes of simultaneous active virtual memory. +That is, the sum of the virtual memory sizes of all (completely- or partially-) +resident processes can not exceed this limit. +If the limit is exceeded, some process(es) must be swapped out. +To increase the amount of resident virtual space possible, +you can alter the constant USRPTSIZE (in +/sys/vax/vmparam.h). +Each page of system page tables allows 8 megabytes of user virtual memory. +.PP +Because the file system block numbers are stored in +page table \fIpg_blkno\fP +entries, the maximum size of a file system is limited to +2^24 1024 byte blocks. Thus no file system can be larger than 8 gigabytes. +.PP +The number of mountable file systems is set at 20 by the definition +of NMOUNT in /sys/h/param.h. +This should be sufficient; if not, the value can be increased up to 255. +If you have many disks, it makes sense to make some of +them single file systems, and the paging areas don't count in this total. +.PP +The limit to the number of files that a process may have open simultaneously +is set to 64. +This limit is set by the NOFILE definition in /sys/h/param.h. +It may be increased arbitrarily, with the caveat that the user structure +expands by 5 bytes for each file, and thus UPAGES (/sys/vax/machparam.h) +must be increased accordingly. +.PP +The amount of physical memory is currently limited to 64 Mb +by the size of the index fields in the core-map (/sys/h/cmap.h). +The limit may be increased by following instructions in that file +to enlarge those fields. |