From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 11:51:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EED37B41A for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g37InZE38608; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:49:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:49:35 -0700 From: David Greenman To: Il%j Sipicin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing "read only" sysctl oids Message-ID: <20020407114935.O7095@nexus.root.com> References: <20020407230654.S54327-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020407230654.S54327-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>; from ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:09:01PM +0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Dear Sirs, > >why some of the values are changeable using /etc/loader.conf >(like kern.ipc.nmbclusters and kern.ipc.maxsockets), >but others are not changeable ? >(for intance, kern.ngroups) Because some of the variables are used to create fixed-size tables and other structures in the kernel which can't be changed after they have been created. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message