Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:01:33 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: vaevictus@socket.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's Message-ID: <19990814060133.20309.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199908132314.QAA01744@dingo.cdrom.com> of Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:14:56 MST References: <199908132314.QAA01744@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith writes: > > options NMBCLUSTERS=4096 > > > > You can check the current value by "sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters" > > but you can only change the value by changing the kernel config, > > building and installing a new kernel and rebooting. > > You can tune this at boot time on -stable and -current systems; check > 'help set tunables' in the loader. I had originally written "you can't set it with sysctl -w" and probably should have left it at that. I never use boot time loader stuff because it's too easy to lose it, whereas things that you set in the kernel config tend to be reliable. -- Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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