Subject: Re: options DFLSSIZ (was Re: panic trying to find init on boot -
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: None <murray@river-styx.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/24/2006 14:38:01
Hi Matt,
    Your observation of my lack of thoroughness here with respect to
reading the unit of measure on the parameter for DFLSSIZ is correct.
Setting DFLSSIZ to 4MB works fine. Thank you for your help.

Take care,
    Murray
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> On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:42 AM, murray@river-styx.org wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,
>>     And the winner is....
>>             options         DFLSSIZ=4096
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>>     Yes, its one of my additional entries. There is a chance the
>> symptom
>> is a combination of this line and some other line. If anyone would
>> like more information, just ask.
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>>     Does it seem incorrect for the machine to fail to find init and
>> panic
>> with this entry? I didn't think 4096 was a large number when my tcsh
>> hard limit reports 32768.
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> DFLSSIZ is in bytes, limit/ulimit reports in KB.  So you limited
> yourself to 4KB where the default limits was 32MB.
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