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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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