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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] binfmt: turn MAX_ARG_PAGES into a sysctl tunable
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:53:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4490310C.9010601@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150297122.31522.54.camel@lappy>

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> 
> Some folks find 128KB of env+arg space too little. Solaris provides them with
> 1MB. Manually changing MAX_ARG_PAGES worked for them so far, however they
> would like to run the supported vendor kernel.

then this patch should go to the vendors maybe ;)
> 
> In the interrest of not penalizing everybody with the overhead of just
> setting it larger, provide a sysctl to change it.
> 


why not go all the way and make it truely dynamic ?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-14 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-14 14:58 [RFC][PATCH] binfmt: turn MAX_ARG_PAGES into a sysctl tunable Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-14 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-14 16:19   ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-15 10:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-16 20:40 ` Pavel Machek
2006-06-17  6:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-23  9:18     ` Pavel Machek

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