Subject: Re: Systems with small memories. [was Re: microvax 3100...]
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/30/2002 11:25:53
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:26:58AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> >   SMALL:47: warning: minimum of 8 maxusers assumed
> 
> A few things that shouldn't depend on MAXUSERS probably explode!
> I did look at waht depends on it, IIRC the only things that grab
> space are the hash tables for pids and pgrps and the timer wheel
> table (which shouldn't depend on MAXPROC anyway).

Would it be beneficial to get rid of MAXUSERS and use dynamic tables?
Where need be a dynamic pool could be backed up with an index array
which would rarely be resized... (maybe growing ^2 when required)?

Matt