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From: Felix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca>
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To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: Re: helping Wietse help postfix on FreeBSD
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote:

>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Len Conrad wrote:
>
> > I=B4m trying to gather tuning information for Wietse Venema who says:
> >
> > "I'm writing a document that describes how to crank up FreeBSD so
> > that it can run lots of processes, and so that it can handle lots
> > of connections.
> >
> > Right now, these guidelines vary from sysctl, loader.conf, to
> > recompiling a kernel. This is confusing."
>
> Terry posted patches to tunify some of the recompile requiring options,
> but I don't think anyone's working on getting that committed right now.
>
> However, if you're good at shell scripting, you might be able to kill at
> least one of those problems.  I was also recently annoyed by the fact tha=
t
> boot time tuneable sysctls and runtime tuneable sysctls can't be set in a
> single place.  What would be cool is if someone made a script that read
> loader.conf sometime during startup and set the options which weren't
> tuned at boot time.  This would allow people to throw all sysctls they
> want to tweak into a single file and make giving out instructions much
> easier.
>
> (I'm assuming that the new script would then be added to the default
> system startup; otherwise it wouldn't be very useful.)
>

Is /etc/sysctl.conf what you are looking for?

- Felix


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