On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:53:19PM +0200, Johannes Dickgreber wrote: > im running MIPS64 kernel on a SGI Octane with 1GByte. > > The cache is that big, because _NSIG on Mips is set to 128. > On all other arch it is only set to 64. > Could MIPS use the lower Value ? One of the historical sins. Not easy to fix because it would break binary compatibility. Ralf