> 3. Proposed Solution
>
> To solve this, we propose
> increasing this to 1/4 of available memory which is the
> limit that in addition, agpgart imposes.
>
> 4. Risks;
>
> There is the risk that increasing this resource may allow
> the system to allocate too much memory, which may cause
> the Solaris kernel to run out. The kernel is probably
> not graceful when it runs out of memory.
>
> If increasing this resource is not acceptable, and having
> the user manually increase the resource is not
> acceptable, then either Sun or the Xorg community need to
> change the Xorg Intel graphics drivers to use less memory
> for Sun to incorporate these drivers into the Solaris
> product.
>
> Increasing this resource affects both x86 and sparc,
> although it is only currently needed on x86.
quick question: When the RAM is shared with multiple OS instances
(virtual machines),
is 1/4 of all available memory a reasonable limit?
Should this be 1/4 of RAM available to the domain (host or guest) ?
Kais.
