Subject: Re: Old VAX notes from dmr.
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/01/2000 17:53:58
On Sat, 1 Jan 100, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > 
> > 	Would it make sense to allow '0' to mean 'scale according to RAM',
> > 	so a GENERIC kernel can make a reasonable guess.
> > 
> Well, what's a "reasonable guess"? :-)
> 
	How about 2 + 1 per 4MB up to a maximum of 32?
	(That was more of a "random guess" :)

> > 	Are there any plans to make the max VM space for a process
> > 	changeable? - on a 4MB machine I can imagine people setting
> > 	it to 128MB to save precious RAM on those tables :)
> > 
> Do you mean for a specific process, or what? Right now, MAXDSIZ et al
> are used for calculating the page table size.

	That would be the value of which I should have been thinking :)

		David/absolute