size of df (was: Re: malloc not enough core)

Win Treese treese at crltrx.crl.dec.com
Wed May 10 04:00:11 AEST 1989


df in Ultrix, like df in 4.3BSD, uses a table of filesystems sized on NMOUNT.
The 4.3BSD df allocates it statically, since NMOUNT is small.  Ultrix
allocates the memory at run-time.  In the standard 3.0 release, NMOUNT
is 254, leading to a rather large table.

Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese at crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.



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