Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 13:51:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970601134942.1218B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <7878.865128832@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Why can't these be handled like setting device setttings (IRQs, > > baseports, etc)? Boot with a "-c" to change them, before the kernel is > > really running, and then write the changes into kernel after boot with > > dset. > > Because it's a totally different mechanism than editing isa_device > structures in userconfig? Are you volunteering to make the changes > that many have discussed but no one has undertaken in order to > support generalized variable setting in userconfig? ;-) > > Jordan Am I right in assuming that the only two items that need to be changable are: - max num of open files (which is based on maxusers now) - number of mbuf clusters (which is based on maxusers too) ? Tom
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