Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 13:40:59 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 suggestions for 2.2 and current Message-ID: <220.849616859@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Dec 1996 18:37:43 %2B0100." <199612011737.SAA22585@server.us.tld>
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In message <199612011737.SAA22585@server.us.tld>, Andre Albsmeier writes: >Hi *, > >1.) I have just increased the kernel buffer size in /usr/include/sys/msgbuf.h > as I was advised by Joerg Wunsch. > It works great. Now I can see all kernel start messages when invoking > dmesg. Since I have 14 devices attached to 2 Adaptec 2940 this was not > possible before. > Wouldn't it be a good idea to increase this number in general, let's say > to 8k, in 2.2 and in current? hmm, maybe. >2.) In function Disk_Names, which resides in /usr/src/lib/libdisk/disk.c, > the maximum number of disks probed is limited to 10 for each device > type wd* or sd*. This means, that my disks sd10 to sd14 won't get > recognized by Disk_Names and therefore by sysinstall. Even > if you haven't got this number of disks, sd10 can be reached quickly, > by wiring down targets 0-6 at scbus 0 to sd0-6 and targets 0-6 at scbus 1 > to sd8-14 as I am doing it at the moment. > Maybe it makes sence to increase this number too. My suggestion would be > 16 or 32 at the moment. If you have that many disks, you will soon grow out of screen-real-estate too, so I don't think this is really important... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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