From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 16 19:06:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10567 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:06:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10560; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03581; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810170210.TAA03581@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: Michael Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand zalloc_defs.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:00:23 +0930." <19981017110023.N469@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:10:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Friday, 16 October 1998 at 12:23:38 -0700, Michael Smith wrote: > > msmith 1998/10/16 12:23:37 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > lib/libstand zalloc_defs.h > > Log: > > Reduce the sbrk() increment from 64K to 4K. There's not much room on the > > Alpha, and wasting potentially 64K-4 bytes of RAM just isn't an option. > > Am I misunderstanding the context here? This space is all virtual, > isn't it? Why should an Alpha have less room than an i386? The bootstrap is given a 256K mapping by the firmware; to add more requires extra work which I'm not up to doing yet. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message