Re: increasing sysv semaphore limits

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:09:10 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> On Jul 15, 2026, at 1:03=E2=80=AFPM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> That sounds like it's totally ok.  We have pages and pages of bloated
>> kernel code already, and the same effort could probably save a page
>> someplace else.
>
> Are these allocated even if they=E2=80=99re not used?  If so, I would obj=
ect to such a change.

Martin did the math and we're talking another 3760 bytes of memory over
the status quo -- which was judged ok with 1993 RAM sizes.

Do you object for all ports, or just smallish ones?   Even amd64 and
aarch64?