Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 15:49:36 +0300 From: Angelin Lalev <lalev@uni-svishtov.bg> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it possible to set the following IPC options at boot insteadof hard-coding them in kernel Message-ID: <5e0316781cd9062d86dbe4d197165551@uni-svishtov.bg> In-Reply-To: <46596E19.2030302@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <46596E19.2030302@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Thanks, it worked! On Sun, 27 May 2007 12:40:09 +0100, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Angelin Lalev wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I'm running squid diskd on my proxy machines and I want to be able to > use freebsd-update. >> Squid diskd requires the following options set in the kernel (example > from daemon news >> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200209/squid.html) >> >> options SYSVMSG >> >> options MSGMNB=8192 # max # of bytes in a queue >> options MSGMNI=40 # number of message queue identifiers >> options MSGSEG=512 # number of message segments per queue >> options MSGSSZ=64 # size of a message segment >> options MSGTQL=2048 # max messages in system >> >> I guess that updating that custom kernel will be a problem for > freebsd-update, so is that >> possible to set those values at boot? (I believe SYSVMSG is in GENERIC > by default). > > You should be able to set these via /boot/loader.conf which will let you > just use a GENERIC kernel. Run: > > sysctl kern.ipc > > to find the OID names and then just put eg: > > kern.ipc.msgmnb=8192 > > into loader.conf (plus all the other tunables you want to change) and > reboot. For the gory details, look at /usr/src/sys/kern/sysv_msg.c --- I > can't find any actual documentation mentioning these OIDs but my reading > of the code suggests that is how it is meant to work. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > - -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGWW4Z8Mjk52CukIwRCPSTAJwOC14nviduEXerQbsHW1YsumtVBACcDltH > yrFMw2UGAPBmG4NKh828G/k= > =zGWU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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