Re: [RFC][PATCH] binfmt: turn MAX_ARG_PAGES into a sysctl tunable

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:53:48 -0700 Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 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 ;)

Wouldn't a mainline merge get it to the vendors?
or put another way, why would the distro vendors want it
if it's not in mainline?

> > 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 ?

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~Randy
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