Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:03:03 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest on ' HEADS UP: loader broken' Message-ID: <3B12D927.C3400E3@newsguy.com> References: <3B11B706.E8032F96@newsguy.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105281001340.16108-100000@beppo.feral.com> <20010528102456.A16715@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:11:46AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > The relevant diffs in loader.4th are: > > > > -------- > > > > 49a50,52 > > > > > > > > > > 256 dictthreshold ! \ 256 cells minimum free space > > > > > 2048 dictincrease ! \ 2048 additional cells each time > > > > -------- > > > > > > Oh... This is *NOT* what I expected! > > > > Well, this is now more interesting. > > It would be interesting to see if you could make it 196 dictthreshold and > 1536 dictincrease and have it work. In other words, find the maxium > values that do work. I did not know what the defaults were, else I would > have made my total ugly hack to boot/alpha/common/Makefile.common change > the values rather than strip them out. Default values are 0/0, which deactivates the feature. Alas, decreasing these values, specially the first, can easily _cause_ problems instead of fixing them, but since it supposedly works with 0/0, that wouldn't happen, unless you made dictincrease <= dictthreshold. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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