From 7fa8a5713052175e779b51148f627af5afab5648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Rhodes Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:46:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a comment on kern.ipc.maxpipekva. PR: 105997 Reviewed by: keramida --- share/man/man7/tuning.7 | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 index 45aee264516b..f95047b7f276 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 19, 2007 +.Dd January 23, 2009 .Dt TUNING 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -402,6 +402,16 @@ In this document we will only cover the ones that have the greatest effect on the system. .Pp The +.Va kern.ipc.maxpipekva +loader tunable is used to set a hard limit on the amount of pageable +address space available. +This value is auto tuned by the system, but may require manual tuning +in a few rare cases. +Increasing this value to a higher setting, such as `25165824' might +improve performance on systems where pageable address space is +quickly exhausted. +.Pp +The .Va kern.ipc.shm_use_phys sysctl defaults to 0 (off) and may be set to 0 (off) or 1 (on). Setting