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Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r226343 - head/sys/vm
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On Friday, October 14, 2011 2:30:47 pm Garrett Cooper wrote:
>     Would you want to be able to toggle this feature at runtime after
> you've fully booted your kernel?

Yes, you do.  When a sysadmin sees that an old Java doesn't run, they don't
really want to have to reboot just to fix it.  We've used runtime tunable
sysctls for similar things previously (mmap at zero).

-- 
John Baldwin