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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:49:35 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Il%j Sipicin <ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: changing "read only" sysctl oids
Message-ID:  <20020407114935.O7095@nexus.root.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020407230654.S54327-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>; from ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:09:01PM %2B0600
References:  <20020407230654.S54327-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>

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>Dear Sirs,
>
>why some of the values are changeable using /etc/loader.conf
>(like kern.ipc.nmbclusters and kern.ipc.maxsockets),
>but others are not changeable ?
>(for intance, kern.ngroups)

   Because some of the variables are used to create fixed-size tables and
other structures in the kernel which can't be changed after they have been
created.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com
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