On Aug 26, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> Because that's the currently configured limit in syscalls.master.

The only reason that's set like that was to make the number of system  
call slots a power of two (512 happened to be the closest power of  
two).  Making it a power of two enables some optimizations in the low- 
level system call handler.

There is no harm in simply making it 1024 (aside from some wasted  
space).

-- thorpej