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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:53:02 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil option -m
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> Probably right, although it's never been clear to me why some things
> have '*' and some don't.  For example etherN=XXXXX is used only by
> the kernel, but it still gets passed in the normal '#e' environment
> to processes.

i'd say that it's a bit of parsimony that we didn't get right.
quite similar in its dog-always-on-wrong-side-of-door nature
to bourne shell's "export".

> How about
> 	*fossilpercent=NN
> 	*ventipercent=NN
> 	*kfspercent=NN

let's make it "fsmb".  that way we need not enumerate file servers.
i've always found listing things in mb is easier to work out.

maybe i'm applying bad experiences with percentage-based partitions,
and *kernelpercent incorrectly.

(if i have *kernelpercent=9 or 10 and 3000mb of memory, how much
kernel memory do i get and why?  how much memory would i
get if i specified nothing?  i think the answer is 73.8125mb any
way for a cpu server, and 256mb for a terminal, using the distribution's
algorithms.)

- erik