[OpenAFS-devel] memory cache size limits?

[Edward Moy]

On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 04:01  PM, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> I haven't dug into this thoroughly, but I'm getting a kernel panic in
> afs_cachetrim on linux when I set mine above 45 MB. I know it fails at
> 75, and I think it fails at 55, haven't narrowed it down yet. Machine
> has tons of memory though.
>
> Will try to get more details tomorrow, but figured I'd ask in case
> anyone knew of anything special here.
>
> I'm runing with -stat 10000 -daemons 6 -volumes 256 -memcache  
> -nosettime

I just started playing with memory caching myself under Mac OS X.  When  
I tried to set it to 100000 KB, it froze.  But on a hunch, I used a  
number divisible by the default 8K blocksize, 80000 KB in my case, it  
worked fine.  You might give that a try.

The documentation is very careful to state that not all combinations of  
settings will work, but they don't say that failing to set them  
correctly will kill your system.
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