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Date:      Sun, 02 Apr 2000 19:00:17 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MLEN and crashes 
Message-ID:  <200004021700.TAA01074@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 2000 13:57:24 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004022118510.1442-100000@alphplex.bde.org> 

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Bruce Evans writes:
>On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> Moving the struct spppreq into global address space solves the problem,
>> but that makes the kernel BSS somewhat larger. Redefining MAX_HDR to be
>> 128 also fixes the problem, even with the struct spppreq on the stack.
>
>Big structs need to be malloced.
>

Yes, but how does one know that a struct is too big ? Before the increase
in MLEN strucct sppp was not too big.

>I think removing the unused bloat in `struct cstate' is the correct fix
>for this particular allocation.
>

I think we should nuke csu_hdr since it's not used anywhere. Is that
what you really mean ?

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org




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