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Subject: Re: making consmsgbuf_size a tunable?
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On 05/03/2010 12:21 AM, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
>
> * Matthew Jacob<mj@feral.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Any thoughts about this?
>>      
> Looks good. Maybe we should make it a tunable only? Looking at the code,
> once the consbuf has been allocated, there is no way you can ever resize
> it.
>
>    

You could, but on closer inspection of the code, this doesn't seem to 
really kick in until you're multiuser anyway (until somebody executes 
TIOCONS), so maybe it doesn't really matter.