From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 14 10:19:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles547.castles.com [208.214.165.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9441548A for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07083; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908141712.KAA07083@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Black Cc: vaevictus@socket.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:01:33 +1000." <19990814060133.20309.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:12:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Mike Smith writes: > > > > options NMBCLUSTERS=4096 > > > > > > You can check the current value by "sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters" > > > but you can only change the value by changing the kernel config, > > > building and installing a new kernel and rebooting. > > > > You can tune this at boot time on -stable and -current systems; check > > 'help set tunables' in the loader. > > I had originally written "you can't set it with sysctl -w" and > probably should have left it at that. I never use boot time > loader stuff because it's too easy to lose it, whereas things > that you set in the kernel config tend to be reliable. Stuff in /boot/loader.conf is just as reliable, providing you're not in the habit of randomly deleting files... -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message