Re: Increasing the default kern.argmax

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 10:04:37AM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 10:01?AM Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > I think we should follow along and increase the default to 1MB too.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> I think this is a great idea. I know that my employer runs Linux
> kernels with specific patches to allow almost arbitrarily long command
> lines. I talked to one of the kernel folks, and they thought 256 kB
> was laughably small.

Yes, but we need to rearrange things in the exec path to make that work
well on tiny memory machines, so it is not just bumping up the constant.

Martin