Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 23:42:46 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest 2.1R panic. Hmm. Message-ID: <199602291312.XAA24814@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <2715.825584514@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 29, 96 10:01:54 am
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Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > > 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. > > one page is getting to be too little. > > Can we make it a config parameter defaulting to 2 pages ? It'd also be nice if you got a more meaniful panic if it overflowed 8) I had an interrupt handler that was regularly panicking courtesy of overflowing the message buffer; I also hit this with the FATLABEL code verbosely logging activity prior to syslog starting. > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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