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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Matteo <kundor@kundor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:25:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050831122512.GZ7403@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050831121144.GA13578@elte.hu>

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:11:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I recompiled and installed the kernel, but there's no change (getconf 
> > ARG_MAX still gives 131072.)  What am I missing?
> 
> MAX_ARG_PAGES should work just fine. I think the 'getconf ARG_MAX' 
> output is hardcoded. (because the kernel does not provide the 
> information dynamically)

Yeah, you get the value of ARG_MAX from <linux/limits.h> that was compiled
in when you compiled glibc.

	Jakub

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31  0:18 MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect? Nick Matteo
2005-08-31 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-31 12:25   ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2005-08-31 23:29   ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-01  6:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-01  7:26       ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-01  8:30         ` Ingo Molnar

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