Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 20:11:23 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: davidg@Root.COM, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com Cc: archive@cps.cmich.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3940? Message-ID: <199511280911.UAA20911@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Related, but not really: pet peeve of the day: DK_NDRIVE is set to 8 in >sys/dkstat.h. This effectively limits the number of drives I can get >statistics on - statistics that would tend to be more useful the more drives >I have. Is there any harm in increasing this? My news box has a dozen >disks. I think you're supposed to increase it if you have a lot of disks. Don't forget to recompile all utilities that depend on it. >(I also noticed: extern int dk_busy; /* bit field of busy drives */ >which is sorta scary :-) wonder how many other places there are hidden >limits built in?) dk_busy is only supported by the wd driver. I guess that's why the msps field in systat only sort of works for wd drives. DK_NDRIVE must be less than the number of bits in an int for dk_busy to work right. I think most of the limits are explicit (like DK_NDRIVE). Of course, this is the wrong way to do things. Bruce
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