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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: sun 3/60 "text: table is full" error message?
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Date: 31 Aug 88 01:41:36 GMT
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You advise people to mess around with the GENERIC configuration
files.

WARNING:

	Anyone who is doing ANYTHING AT ALL with a GENERIC kernel
	except using it to configure a specific kernel for their
	particular configuration is seeing performance that is
	MUCH WORSE than they should.  GENERIC kernels use much
	more memory than tailored kernels.

In the case of Jim Chekerylla's Sun 3/60,  he should base his
configuration file on /usr/sys/sun3/conf/SDST60,  since his machine
has a local disk (SD).  If it were diskless,  he should be using
DL60.  For details,  see Chapter 9 of the "System & Network
Administration" manual.

If Jim is running a GENERIC kernel,  he is very likely to see
"text: table is full" error message (and other errors).  The reasons
for this are that the GENERIC kernel is not intended for normal use,
only for temporary use while you build a tailored kernel.

Of course,  the real fix for the "text: table is full" message is
to upgrade to SunOS4.0,  which no longer has a text table for you to
run out of space in.  On the other hand,  with 4.0,  it is even more
important to configure a tailored kernel.

	David.

REMEMBER - if you're running a GENERIC kernel,  you have only
yourself to blame for the mediocre performance.