Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:22:04 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/32542: tuning(7) inaccurate Message-ID: <200112060022.fB60M4x08864@fledge.watson.org>
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>Number: 32542 >Category: docs >Synopsis: tuning(7) inaccurate >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 05 16:30:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Robert Watson >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: NAI Labs >Environment: src/share/man/man7/tuning.7 on -CURRENT includes a number of inaccuracies regarding kern.maxusers. First, kern.maxusers is not a writable sysctl (although it is exported as a read-only sysctl), it's a boot-time tunable. Second, the -CURRENT man page incorrectly distinguishes the behavior regarding kern.maxusers between -CURRENT and -STABLE. Both versions support modifying the value at boottime using loader.conf. The -STABLE version should be updated to reflect that this is the case (rather than recommending a kernel recompile), and the -CURRENT version should refer to it as a tunable, and stop casting aspersions at -STABLE. Note that in -CURRENT, nmbclusters is also a boot-time tunable, but that in -STABLE, it still requires a kernel recompile. There may be other aging information in tuning(7) that needs updating. >Description: >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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