Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:10:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand zalloc_defs.h Message-ID: <199810170210.TAA03581@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:00:23 %2B0930." <19981017110023.N469@freebie.lemis.com>
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> 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
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