From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 14 8: 6:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9717937B405; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0EG7OD58764; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:07:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C4303E8.6020805@pittgoth.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:14:32 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: Ceri , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: handbook kernel configuration still uses manual maxusers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > >>Ceri wrote: >> >> >>>On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:09:22PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Was skimming through the handbook on the web this evening, and noticed >>>>that the kernel configuration section is still out of date with respects >>>>to the recent addition of maxusers-autotuning. This is something that >>>>probably should be updated prior to the release. >>>> >>>> >>>This was done a while ago in revision 1.31, IIRC. >>> >>>Ceri >>> >>> >>> >>Actually, I am currently working on a new version of the handbook's >>Kernel Configuration chapter, but when I got my hands on 4.5, I noticed >>some differences that need to be noted. Most likly I will wait until >>4.5 has been released before I continue work, this way I can be sure we >>have everything up to par. Comments/suggestions? >> > > If possible, I think it would be highly desirable to ship a version of the > handbook with 4.5-RELEASE that includes documentation of at least a couple > of the kernel configuration changes. In particular, the maxusers change. > Hopefully, we've gotten past the point where too many serious changes are > going into 4.5, certainly ones relating to the user experience (cross > fingers here). > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > > > Actually, having sup'd the sources, I have found it to be no real big deal making the transition to 4.5 The only thing I have found a problem, is the KDE source will not build (least not last week) and I had to revert back to the older version of KDE and in turn screwed up my ports (starting pkgdb -F) but that has nothing to do with the 4.5 release since the source came from kde.org. I think the documentation may be a good idea, however, I think its the time constraint that we would be facing... -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message