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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:41:11 +0100
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_param.c
Message-ID:  <20071119184111.GB1516@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071119025328.GU8950@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <200710161040.l9GAes88010153@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071118224216.GA29048@freebsd.org> <20071119025328.GU8950@elvis.mu.org>

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On Sun, 18.11.2007 at 18:53:28 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> [071118 14:42] wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:40:54AM +0000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/kern             subr_param.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Export maxswzone, maxbcache, maxtsiz, dfldsiz, maxdsiz, dflssiz, maxssiz,
> > >   and sgrowsiz via sysctl.
> > 
> > why is maxssiz RD_ONLY? its used only in exec_new_vmspace() for setting the default
> > stack area size and only if thats not set by sysentvec, so it's RW already just
> > not defined so.
> > 
> > also... dflssiz is not used at all, and the "default stack size" is set by maxssiz
> 
> If you think it can be safely changed, then go for it!

Could this be done for maxdsiz, too? It's kinda sad you need to reboot a
FreeBSD system to work around the 512MB data size limit (in this day and
age, processes can easily hit the 512MB barrier)

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
-- 
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak, and remove all doubt.



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