Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:32:34 +0000 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest 2.1R panic. Hmm. Message-ID: <2710.825557554@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:47:59 PST." <199602282347.PAA07077@Root.COM>
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David Greenman wrote in message ID <199602282347.PAA07077@Root.COM>: > Is there a general consensus that wasting one extra page for the message > buffer by default is desired? I know I've overrun it myself on many systems, > and it's very annoying when it happens. > If so, I'll make the change to an 8K buffer a standard part of FreeBSD. Hmm. Perhaps make it a kernel compile option, and if user-land programs need to know the size of the buffer, add a sysctl (or something) to read the value out of the kernel? If nothing else, I can see systems like wcarchive going WAY over the 8k buffer for boot messages! Gary
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