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To: tbrown@vcsun2.tamu.edu (Tom Brown)
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Subject: Re: kgdb 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 19:50:02 -0800
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>i'm trying to reboot my freebsd 2.1 system after making a
>change the value of a global variable (ifqmaxlen) with
>
>#gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem
>
>(kgdb) set ifqmaxlen=5
>
>how do i reboot the system so that the new value sticks?

   Hi Tom. The setting above only changes the in-core copy of the kernel
image. You'll have to change the initialization of ifqmaxlen in /sys/net/if.c
and recompile the kernel in order to make it permanent.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project