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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!aix1.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@aix1.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0e] Kernel's bss has grown up Message-ID: <1993Nov7.101416.26351@emba.uvm.edu> Sender: news@emba.uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <2bd92f$4t@keltia.frmug.fr.net> <MYCROFT.93Nov6093036@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1993 10:14:16 GMT Lines: 23 [Bogus `world' distribution deleted.] In article <MYCROFT.93Nov6093036@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: >Out of curiosity, I looked, and that claim is *not* true, except for a >very twisted sense of what the word `dynamic' means. To be completely precise, our use of the word ``dynamic'' refers to the fact that, while virtual address space for buffers is still statically allocated, the amount of space made available for this purpose depends on the size of main memory, and will never exceed (32MB)*2/5 in the present implementation. This compares to various incarnations of 386BSD in which either a ridiculously small number of fixed-size buffers were allocated, or buffer allocation was permitted to use up all of available memory. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant