From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 7 10:31:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA13088 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:31:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13070; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03407; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:29:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199712071829.NAA03407@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: VM system info In-Reply-To: <199712071824.QAA18566@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis at "Dec 7, 97 04:24:58 pm" To: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:29:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joao Carlos Mendes Luis said: > #define quoting(John S. Dyson) > // Notes on VM tunables: > // > // I have recently added some interesting VM tunables. Since it would > // be nice if people other than me (or those who requested them) could > // use the features, I thought it would be nice to pass this info on: > > Is there any place or URL where we can get this information always > updated ? It's a pretty good form of documentation I've always > wanted to know. > Nope. Unfortunately, the source code is the only place for it (by inference.) The VFS sysctls also deserve some documentation. > > Maybe it deserves a handbook section ? > Maybe, but it is extremely kernel version dependent, and would require some commitment to maintain. Otherwise, the info could be confusing. I know that some of the information would be useful, especially to ISPs. That is specifically the reason that I sent the info to the mailing list. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com