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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:58:18 -0500
From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
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Subject: Re: kern/77353: grow SysV IPC kernel limits
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
>  > You mean in runtime?  IIRC, some of the kern.ipc sysctl variables are not
>  > writable.  Am I missing something?
>  > 
>  
>  Correct, but I believe they can still be set in /etc/boot.conf simply by
>  specifying:
>  
>  MIB_NAME="VALUE"

Still not a bad idea to think about setting the defaults to
something usable.  IIRC, the SysV IPC limits are purely
administrative, so raising them wouldn't result in any sort of
performance or memory penalty.