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On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:09 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

>> *: This is the default behavior for 7.0, I have not encountered the
>> problem mentioned above on any 1950/2950 boxes so far I have tested.
>
> I will enable MSI by default on 6.x now (so will take affect for 6.4).
> We've also enabled it by default on 6.x at work.
>

Where can one go to read up on what MSI is and how it helps us?

Is enabling it just setting a sysctl?  Does that have to be done in  
loader.conf or can it happen later?