Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:28:18 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysadminmag update Message-ID: <20011005142818.D32040@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <3BBD8527.449C8537@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:02:15AM -0700 References: <20010720030757.A7504@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B585CC8.480BA14D@mindspring.com> <20010720174929.A17080@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B592F01.D9ED5404@mindspring.com> <20011004193802.E24976@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3BBD8527.449C8537@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:02:15AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: | j mckitrick wrote: | > | > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:28:01AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: | > | j mckitrick wrote: | > | > | > | > here it is: | > | > | > | > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0108/0108q/0108q.htm | > | | > | The "tuning" they did for the sockets and other things | > | is still wrong; most of those things are impossible to | > | set at anything other than boot time. The numbers will | > | go up, but the available number of objects sitting in | > | the allocation pools will not. | > | > Is this documented? Several sysctl options say in the manpage that they | > only work at boot time. | | It is not well documented. Most of the FreeBSD early code | is not well documented, nor is its memory footprint, or | what is used, when, and what's preallocated, where, and | wehere it's managed. Hmm. Maybe a good stopgap message would be to show which sysctl values work dynamically, and which must be handled at boot time. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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