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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:55:16 -0700
From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Tuning the 4.1-R kernel for networking
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:55:47PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
[...]
> Your system isn't configured for high network throughput, you
> want to put something like:
> 
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768
> 
> this might also help:
> net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize=32768
> 
> put those into /boot/loader.conf

So to clarify, if I just add these lines as-is to /boot/loader.conf,
these sysctl variables will be set on the next boot?

The current contents of loader.conf on this system is:

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
userconfig_script_load="YES"


Thanks,
-brian

-- 
Brian O'Shea
<boshea@ricochet.net>

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