From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 28 16: 2:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA0137B42C; Mon, 28 May 2001 16:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (ppp039-bsace7002.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.81.39]) by newsguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4SN1gF57322; Mon, 28 May 2001 16:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B12D927.C3400E3@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:03:03 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest on ' HEADS UP: loader broken' References: <3B11B706.E8032F96@newsguy.com> <20010528102456.A16715@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David O'Brien wrote: > > 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. Default values are 0/0, which deactivates the feature. Alas, decreasing these values, specially the first, can easily _cause_ problems instead of fixing them, but since it supposedly works with 0/0, that wouldn't happen, unless you made dictincrease <= dictthreshold. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message