From owner-cvs-all Sat Jul 28 13:56:46 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6125737B401; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6SKvwJ02435; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107282058.f6SKvwJ02435@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c src/sys/kern subr_param.c kern_mib.c src/sys/sys systm.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:26:25 PDT." <20010727162625.7262738FE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:57:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > : Move param.c out of the conf directory and make it fully dynamic. > > : Tunables are now derived at boot time from maxusers. ie: change maxuse > rs > > : via a tunable and all the derivative settings change. You can change > > : the other tunables individually as well. Even hz etc is tunable. > > > > Maybe I missed it, but shouldn't these be documented somewhere? > > "Where?" is a damn good question... tunables(8) If nobody else has started on this already, I'll try to cull a list of our current tunables and put a skeleton together today. I'm not sure how I feel about documenting these in the loader help; it's starting to get pretty enormous. Maybe we need a way of reading catpages from the loader? 8) 8) 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message