From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 04:49:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D5916A420 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:49:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@unixdaemon.org) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [217.160.230.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A256A43D46 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@unixdaemon.org) Received: from [24.24.83.9] (helo=dracula) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrelayus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKoyl-1Eb9o30WNS-0000Eo; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:49:33 -0500 From: Dev Tugnait To: David Kelly In-Reply-To: References: <20051112003804.GA2463@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <1131765329.20279.0.camel@dracula> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:50:14 -0500 Message-Id: <1131857414.6427.15.camel@dracula> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:6cab55b0e871d867d86bc0851d5d347f Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Reading RELENG_6 kernel tunables? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dev@unixdaemon.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:49:34 -0000 Check /boot/defaults/loader.conf #kern.maxssiz="" # Set the max stack size #kern.maxswzone="" # Set the max swmeta KVA storage under NOTES it shows you how to add it in the kernel just place your settings in tunables instead hope that helps On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 22:25 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Nov 11, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Dev Tugnait wrote: > > > sysctl -a; man sysctl > > > > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:38 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > >> /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES says: > >> > >> # 2. In /boot/loader.conf, set the tunables kern.maxswzone, > >> # kern.maxbcache, kern.maxtsiz, kern.dfldsiz, kern.maxdsiz, > >> # kern.dflssiz, kern.maxssiz and kern.sgrowsiz. > >> > >> Is loader.conf in some sort of different world than sysctl(8)? > >> Shouldn't > >> I be able to at least view the current settings using sysctl? I > >> understand these are things which may have to be set in stone > >> before the > >> kernel starts running proper. Just want to see the current value. > >> > >> # sysctl kern.maxssiz > >> sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.maxssiz' > >> > >> Show how can a view the current setting and confirm my messing with > >> loader.conf took hold? > > Been there. Done that. Read sysctl(8) before posting the first time. > > # sysctl -a | grep kern.maxssiz > # > > No output. Did *you* try your suggestion before posting? > > sysctl(8) says: > > -a List all the currently available non-opaque values. > This option > is ignored if one or more variable names are specified > on the > command line. > ... > -o Show opaque variables (which are normally suppressed). > The for- > mat and length are printed, as well as a hex dump of > the first > sixteen bytes of the value. > > -a didn't do the job, and neither did -o, so I asked here. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net > ======================================================================== > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"