On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 09:01:13PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Anyone care to enlighten me about the usage of that value and why we are
> only setting it for one distribution? (If it has to do something about
> available RAM, then would it perhaps be more useful to introduce a
> RAM_SIZE setting in <machine>.conf and setting this threshold depending
> thereof?)

See this bug:
http://handhelds.org/~bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=650

You are right. We should try to set this on a per machine basis since
handhelds like h5550 have 128MB of RAM and hx4700 have framebuffers with
quite a bit of mmapable space. But the current glibc default setting of
128kiB is way too high for any iPAQ gen before it.

It was set by distro because familiar deemed it necessary for release
and did not want to pollute OZ builds. We were trying to be nice about
regressions associated to it.

Feel free to take a stab at per-machine settability if you want to use
the fix now for OZ et al. I will probably get around to it for the
familiar 0.9 release. But don't hold your breath.

E

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