From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 8 5: 0:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 05:00:56 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (pool207-tch-1.Sofia.0rbitel.net [212.95.170.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 165F537B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 05:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1549 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Dec 2000 12:59:59 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:59:59 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: william.carlsson@teligent.se Cc: Mikko Tyolajarvi , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shared Memory Message-ID: <20001208145959.C451@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: william.carlsson@teligent.se, Mikko Tyolajarvi , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200012071754.eB7Hs5C22914@explorer.rsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from wille@teligent.se on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:01:16PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:01:16PM +0100, William Carlsson - Teligent Nordic, AB - Sweden wrote: > Isn't all kern.* read only? > Seems like it can't be changed more than it's in theory changeable > > Something like the maximum nuber of files and processes, that is suposed to > be > soft configurable in login.conf (doesn't work either) > > ,D Does anything work in FreeBSD? ,D Uhm.. what version of FreeBSD do you have in mind? On a 4.2 I have.. [roam@ringworld:v2 ~]$ limits | fgrep maxproc maxprocesses 256 [roam@ringworld:v2 ~]$ On another console: [root@ringworld:v0 /etc]# perl -pi -e 's/maxproc=256/maxproc=512/' login.conf [root@ringworld:v0 /etc]# Logout and re-login on the first one: [roam@ringworld:v2 ~]$ limits | fgrep maxproc maxprocesses 512 [roam@ringworld:v2 ~]$ Feels quite changeable to me :) And btw - no, almost none of the kern.* sysctls are read-only. [root@ringworld:v0 /etc]# sysctl kern.coredump kern.corefile kern.syncdelay ker n.consmute kern.coredump: 1 kern.corefile: %N.core kern.syncdelay: 30 kern.consmute: 0 [root@ringworld:v0 /etc]# sysctl -w kern.coredump=0 kern.corefile='%N.CORE' ker n.syncdelay=100 kern.consmute=1 kern.coredump: 1 -> 0 kern.corefile: %N.core -> %N.CORE kern.syncdelay: 30 -> 100 kern.consmute: 0 -> 1 [root@ringworld:v0 /etc]# ..to name an (almost) random sample :) G'luck, Peter -- This would easier understand fewer had omitted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message