From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 17:36:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA05460 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:36:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05452 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:36:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id BAA02712 ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:32:34 GMT To: davidg@Root.COM cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Latest 2.1R panic. Hmm. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:47:59 PST." <199602282347.PAA07077@Root.COM> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:32:34 +0000 Message-ID: <2710.825557554@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote in message ID <199602282347.PAA07077@Root.COM>: > Is there a general consensus that wasting one extra page for the message > buffer by default is desired? I know I've overrun it myself on many systems, > and it's very annoying when it happens. > If so, I'll make the change to an 8K buffer a standard part of FreeBSD. Hmm. Perhaps make it a kernel compile option, and if user-land programs need to know the size of the buffer, add a sysctl (or something) to read the value out of the kernel? If nothing else, I can see systems like wcarchive going WAY over the 8k buffer for boot messages! Gary