From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 5 12:29:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA02189 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 12:29:24 -0800 Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA02183 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 12:29:22 -0800 Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <205>; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 12:36:41 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 12:36:34 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Ed Hudson cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, elh@spnet.com Subject: Re: kernel limits In-Reply-To: <199502041640.QAA06673@p5.spnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 Feb 1995, Ed Hudson wrote: > > i'd like to request that you folks consider 2 changes > to kernel limits to be incorporated in the general > release. > > in order for me to do the sort of work that i do > (chip design, cad development), the first thing > that i do with each new release of FBSD is change these > limits. i know of other organizations using FBSD > (or NBSD) in real engineering applications, and they > have similar problems with the current limtis. Why not provide several different kernels that could be copied over the generic kernel? Some suggestions: - IDE only kernel. Many people only have IDE drives, keeping out all the SCSI drivers would probably save some space. - SCSI only kernel. No IDE driver. - PRO Kenerl. Extra high limits on symlinks, users, processes, etc. Tom