From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 04:46:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B3A16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 04:46:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2DF43D49 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 04:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 6ECA5530C; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:46:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 7F762530A; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:46:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 5964233C6A; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:46:00 +0100 (CET) To: Uwe Doering References: <20040120132533.GA24163@neuron.tuke.sk> <400E3628.8050601@geminix.org> <400E6FC6.6010801@geminix.org> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:46:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <400E6FC6.6010801@geminix.org> (Uwe Doering's message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:25:42 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: ss X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.61 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where are defaults for kernel variables? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:46:17 -0000 Uwe Doering writes: > While there are a number of variables that get derived from the > physical memory size (if not overridden), claiming that kernel > variable defaults are _generally_ computed at boot time is certainly > an exaggeration. The important ones are. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no