Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!walhalla!jf From: jf@walhalla.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Jan-Hinrich Fessel) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Increasing buffersize causes real problems Message-ID: <2004@unido.UUCP> Date: 3 Jul 90 14:08:11 GMT References: <1865@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> <90.179.12:00:44@ira.uka.de> <1297@nixhhs.UUCP> Sender: news@unido.UUCP Reply-To: jf@walhalla.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel) Organization: EUnet Backbone Germany (Universitaet Dortmund) Lines: 29 In article <1297@nixhhs.UUCP> andreas@nixhhs.UUCP (Andreas Wettengel) writes: >In article <90.179.12:00:44@ira.uka.de> Guenther Schreiner writes: >>In article <1865@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> brucee@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Bruce >>Evans) writes: >>>Minix-386 uses NR_BUFS = 320 and NR_BUF_HASH = 512. I think a much smaller >[...] >>If i do this on my 2 MB ATARI-ST with the given values the system isn't able >>to boot. I got a message like 'unable to report size to mm'. I must reduce >>the values to something like NR_BUFS = 100 NR_BUF_HASH = 64 to get it running. >I am running NR_BUFS=160 and NR_BUF_HASH = 256 without problems on a 1 MB ST. OK, I think this is a compiler bug, but I haven't tested out with c68... What I observed was: if((NR_BUFS > 200) || (NR_BUF_HASH > 512)) { kenrnel_does_not_boot_on_ST(); } Cheers Jan-Hinrich ~~~~ Jan-Hinrich Fessel, Universitaet Dortmund, IRB jf@unido.uni-dortmund.de atari-{sources,binaries}@unido.uni-dortmund.de -- ~~~~ Jan-Hinrich Fessel, Universitaet Dortmund, IRB jf@unido.uni-dortmund.de atari-{sources,binaries}@unido.uni-dortmund.de