From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 31 14:38:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15278 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 14:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA15265 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 14:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA11743; Sat, 31 May 1997 14:36:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705312136.OAA11743@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 14:36:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9876.865110612@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 31, 97 01:30:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > More and more people are trying to use GENERIC as a template for their > own kernels and they're losing, of course, because generic sets many > limits (like max children or open files) too low. > > Unfortunately, every time this issue has come up in the past it's also > followed a rather set course, in 3 distinct stages: > [ ... ] The problem with all of these stages is fanout. No matter which "configuration" I select (is a 4 user config ever really optimal for *any* usage???), I need the same controllers and virtual devices on my machine, regardless of how many vnodes I allow to be active at one time. The config needs to be seperated into "machine" and "usage" portions, IMO. Maybe adding the ability to use #include (or equivalent) is really the thing to do, instead. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.