From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Feb 6 17:24:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E384937B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.sc.intel.com (fmr03.intel.com [143.183.121.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A8743FD7 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:24:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adsharma@unix-os.sc.intel.com) Received: from talaria.sc.intel.com (talaria.sc.intel.com [10.3.253.5]) by hermes.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: outer.mc,v 1.51 2002/09/23 20:43:23 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id h171M3615259 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 01:22:03 GMT Received: from unix-os.sc.intel.com (unix-os.sc.intel.com [143.183.96.244]) by talaria.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: inner.mc,v 1.28 2003/01/13 19:44:39 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id h171KE602668 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 01:20:14 GMT Received: from unix-os.sc.intel.com.intel.com (adsharma-mobl3.sc.intel.com [143.183.130.57]) by unix-os.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id h171OFr08115 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:24:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:24:15 -0800 Message-Id: <200302070124.h171OFr08115@unix-os.sc.intel.com> To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: msgbuf size From: Arun Sharma Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org When I configure my box with a large msgbuf, so that I can see verbose boot messages, I get: WARNING: 106496 bytes not available for msgbuf in last cluster (8192 used) This seems to be related to this comment in machdep.c: /* * Initialize error message buffer (at end of core). */ Does it have to be at the end of core ? Why not use pmap_steal_memory to get hold of memory ? -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message