From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 16:30:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4DB37B417 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA15534; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:19:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3BNIFB08170; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200204112318.g3BNIFB08170@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: documentation for loader.conf variables? In-Reply-To: <200204112322.34336@.perimeter.co.za> "from Patrick O'Reilly at Apr 11, 2002 11:24:17 pm" To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 Patrick O'Reilly writes: > > Are the kernel override variables that can go into /boot/loader.conf > > listed and/or documented somewhere? > > > > I'm talking about things like: > > > > hw.ata.wc="0" > > kern.hz="1000" > > these variable relate to "sysctl". man sysctl for more info. sysctl > -a will list them all, though it does not explain what each one means. You are correct that they relate to sysctl but they are not the same thing.. e.g., 'kern.hz' in loader.conf becomes 'kern.clockrate.hz' in sysctl, i.e., it's not a 1:1 correspondence. Since they're not the same somewhere they ought to be documented... though I'm getting the feeling they're not :-) FYI, below is a list of all the ones I found by hunting through the kernel. No idea what most of them do. Thanks, -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com hw.aac.iosize_max hw.ata.ata_dma hw.ata.atapi_dma hw.ata.tags hw.ata.wc hw.pcic.boot_deactivated hw.pcic.ignore_function_1 hw.pcic.init_routing hw.pcic.intr_path hw.pcic.irq hw.snd.unit hw.snd.verbose hw.wx.txint_delay kern.dfldsiz kern.dflssiz kern.hz kern.ipc.maxsockets kern.ipc.nmbclusters kern.ipc.nmbufs kern.ipc.nsfbufs kern.maxbcache kern.maxdsiz kern.maxfiles kern.maxproc kern.maxssiz kern.maxswzone kern.maxtsiz kern.maxusers kern.nbuf kern.ncallout kern.sgrowsiz kern.splassertmode kern.vm.kmem.size machdep.pccard.pcic_irq net.inet.tcp.syncache.bucketlimit net.inet.tcp.syncache.cachelimit net.inet.tcp.syncache.hashsize net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize vm.pmap.pv_entries vm.pmap.shpgperproc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message