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| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml | 48 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml index 9dab5b3876..a0ec89f398 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml @@ -271,22 +271,18 @@ memory segment cache is not reused if its size exceeds the requested size with more than relative max cache bad fit percent of the requested size. Default value is 20.</item> - <tag><marker id="MMscmgc"><c><![CDATA[+MMscmgc <amount>]]></c></marker></tag> - <item> - Set <seealso marker="#MMscs">super carrier</seealso> max guaranteed - no of carriers. This parameter defaults to <c>65536</c>. This - parameter determines an amount of pre-allocated structures that is - needed in order to keep track of different areas in the super carrier. - When the system runs out of such structures it may crash due to an - out of memory condition. - </item> <tag><marker id="MMsco"><c><![CDATA[+MMsco true|false]]></c></marker></tag> <item> Set <seealso marker="#MMscs">super carrier</seealso> only flag. This flag defaults to <c>true</c>. When a super carrier is used and this - flag is <c>true</c>, the system will crash when a carrier request - cannot be satisfied by the super carrier. When the flag is <c>false</c> - the system will try to create requested carrier by other means. + flag is <c>true</c>, <c>mseg_alloc</c> will only create carriers + in the super carrier. Note that the <c>alloc_util</c> framework may + create <c>sys_alloc</c> carriers, so if you want all carriers to + be created in the super carrier, you therefore want to disable use + of <c>sys_alloc</c> carriers by also passing + <seealso marker="#Musac"><c>+Musac false</c></seealso>. When the flag + is <c>false</c>, <c>mseg_alloc</c> will try to create carriers outside + of the super carrier when the super carrier is full. <br/><br/> <em>NOTE</em>: Setting this flag to <c>false</c> may not be supported on all systems. This flag will in that case be ignored. @@ -295,6 +291,19 @@ disabled on halfword heap systems. This flag will be ignored on halfword heap systems. </item> + <tag><marker id="MMscrfsd"><c><![CDATA[+MMscrfsd <amount>]]></c></marker></tag> + <item> + Set <seealso marker="#MMscs">super carrier</seealso> reserved + free segment descriptors. This parameter defaults to <c>65536</c>. + This parameter determines the amount of memory to reserve for + free segment descriptors used by the super carrier. If the system + runs out of reserved memory for free segment descriptors, other + memory will be used. This may however cause fragmentation issues, + so you want to ensure that this never happens. The maximum amount + of free segment descriptors used can be retrieved from the + <c>erts_mmap</c> tuple part of the result from calling + <seealso marker="erts:erlang#system_info_allocator_tuple">erlang:system_info({allocator, mseg_alloc})</seealso>. + </item> <tag><marker id="MMscrpm"><c><![CDATA[+MMscrpm true|false]]></c></marker></tag> <item> Set <seealso marker="#MMscs">super carrier</seealso> reserve physical @@ -549,6 +558,11 @@ placed in separate memory segments. When this limit has been reached, new carriers will be placed in memory retrieved from <c>sys_alloc</c>.</item> + <tag><marker id="Musac"><c><![CDATA[+Musac <bool>]]></c></marker></tag> + <item> + Allow <c>sys_alloc</c> carriers. By default <c>true</c>. If + set to <c>false</c>, <c>sys_alloc</c> carriers will never be + created by allocators using the <c>alloc_util</c> framework.</item> </taglist> <p>Instrumentation flags:</p> <taglist> @@ -604,6 +618,16 @@ </item> </taglist> </item> + <tag><marker id="Mlpm"><c>+Mlpm all|no</c></marker></tag> + <item>Lock physical memory. The default value is <c>no</c>, i.e., + no physical memory will be locked. If set to <c>all</c>, all + memory mappings made by the runtime system, will be locked into + physical memory. If set to <c>all</c>, the runtime system will fail + to start if this feature is not supported, the user has not got enough + privileges, or the user is not allowed to lock enough physical memory. + The runtime system will also fail with an out of memory condition + if the user limit on the amount of locked memory is reached. + </item> </taglist> <p>Only some default values have been presented here. |