Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Geoff Buckingham wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:12:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Yes. Limit the number of CG bitmaps you examine simultaneously, and make the operation multiple pass over the disk. This is not that hard a modification to fsck, and it can be done fairly quickly by

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Saab
David Schultz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From my brief research on the subject, the FreeBSD community has been highly resistant to supporting third party filesystems precisely because nobody with such needs as yours has ever contributed the code necessary to make third party filesystem

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-04 Thread Terry Lambert
Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. The kernel being able to address the RAM does not meant that the KVA+UVA space is larger than 4G. At best, you could take the uiomove/copyin/copyout performance hit,

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-04 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:12:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Yes. Limit the number of CG bitmaps you examine simultaneously, and make the operation multiple pass over the disk. This is not that hard a modification to fsck, and it can be done fairly quickly by anyone who understands the

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. That's 4G of memory in the system. 32-bit processors are still limited to 4G processor address space, which means

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-04 Thread Andrew Kinney
On 4 Sep 2003, at 11:53, Julian Elischer wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. That's 4G of memory in the system. 32-bit processors are

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Andrew Kinney wrote: Our experience has been that with 4GB of RAM (or more) you really must increase your KVA to 2GB, leaving only 2GB of UVA. So, I would concur with what Julian said. ducks his head to avoid the rotten tomatoes that are sure to be thrown ;-)

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-04 Thread David Schultz
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003, Andrew Kinney wrote: Our experience has been that with 4GB of RAM (or more) you really must increase your KVA to 2GB, leaving only 2GB of UVA. So, I would concur with what Julian said. ducks his head to avoid the rotten tomatoes that are sure to be thrown ;-)

RE: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-03 Thread Max Clark
Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. - The PAE support allows FreeBSD machines to make use of more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. This functionality was originally written by Jake Burkholder under contract with DARPA and Network

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-03 Thread Eric Anderson
Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. - The PAE support allows FreeBSD machines to make use of more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. This functionality was originally written by Jake Burkholder under contract with

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-03 Thread Brooks Davis
[Please, please, please fix your mailer to quote properly. It's very difficult to read your messages.] On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:08:28AM -0700, Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. - The PAE support

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. It does. However as long as a pointer is 32 bits, your address space for a process is maxed out at 4G which translates to about 2.5G user after kernel and other

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. It can. PAE lets the hardware address more than 4GB of RAM, but that doesn't change how much memory you can give to any one process: a 32-bit process still has a

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-03 Thread Tim Kientzle
Max Clark wrote: Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE could address more than 4GB of Ram. That's 4G of memory in the system. 32-bit processors are still limited to 4G processor address space, which means 3G per process (allowing some memory for kernel