Re: Sparc DFLDSIZ

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

> > Is there any reason why DFLDSIZ couldn't be bumped up to 32 Meg?  I
> > do not pretend to understand what might be affected by doing this.
> 
> Theo's well-being.  He seems to believe that compilers should stay
> small forever, and that bumping such limits should occur under no
> circumstance.

Well, that's rather obvious.

But there are other problems.  There is a slowdown as you crank the
default limits.  And there are physical machine limits not much higher
than the software limits currently provided.  The sun4c and sun4
machines do not provide a full 4GB address space; they've got a huge
hole in the middle.