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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0e] Kernel's bss has grown up Date: 06 Nov 1993 07:21:47 GMT Organization: Lotus Development Ireland Lines: 46 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.93Nov5232147@whisker.lotus.ie> References: <2bd92f$4t@keltia.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie In-reply-to: Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net's message of 5 Nov 1993 10:14:25 GMT In article <2bd92f$4t@keltia.frmug.fr.net> Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes: kernel has gained a few bytes in the bss section. With the following config file, whereas the EPSILON version was using some bytes of bss, the RELEASE kernel's bss is so big that I get the "bss overlap, kernel must bzero" at boot time. Harmless. Actually, I've almost always gotten it. In any case, if you re-install the boot blocks that message will actually go away. And if one is trying to put too many things into a kernel, like the sound card driver, MFS, 32 ptys suddenly the kernel is too big to even boot under the 640 KB limit (it happened to a friend of mine). And no wonder, too! The sound driver is, erm, BIG. Load it above 1MB if you must have such a large kernel (look at the LINT config file for an example of how to do this). The filesystem seems a little slower too. I've read in the RELEASE announ- cement that the buffer cache was dynamic so it is funny to see the following message when I boot (ok, maybe it's dynamic after boot :-)) Hmmmm. I don't get that feeling at all. And last, how does one use the new sound driver ? I've seen Linux box so I know that /dev/audio can play Sun's .au files but is there utilities like cdsp for it ? Read /sys/i386/doc/sound.doc. There's also a package in freebsd.cdrom.com's packages directory called snd_util_src that you might want to look at. Anyway, XFree86 2.0 is running great on it and I'm very happy with it, thanks again for all FreeBSD/NetBSD folks ! Erm. Thanks, though we are different groups you know! :-) using 358 buffers containing 2932736 bytes of memory <<<<< dynamic ? :-) Yes. Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.