Re: physmem on FreeBSD, NetBSD

Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes:

> The 'physmem' module could use some improvement on FreeBSD and NetBSD:
>
> physmem_claimable (1.0) should, in a VM with 32 GB RAM with few
> running processes, be normally around 29 GB or 30 GB. This is the
> case on Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 11.
>
> But on FreeBSD 15.1, it returns 8 GiB only.
>
> And on NetBSD 10.0, it returns 4 GiB only.
>
> Improvements welcome!

Maybe the current price of RAM makes those issues less problematic. :)

I can have a look at them. I assume there is a sysctl somewhere, but
I'll come back to the list if I get stuck.

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