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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2001 10:24:56 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Latest on ' HEADS UP: loader broken'
Message-ID:  <20010528102456.A16715@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105281001340.16108-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:11:46AM -0700
References:  <3B11B706.E8032F96@newsguy.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105281001340.16108-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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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.

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