From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 28 10:25: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B112037B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 10:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@[206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4SHOvl47094; Mon, 28 May 2001 10:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4SHOuc16749; Mon, 28 May 2001 10:24:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:24:56 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest on ' HEADS UP: loader broken' Message-ID: <20010528102456.A16715@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B11B706.E8032F96@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:11:46AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message