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Wayne Pascoe <freebsd-questions@penguinpowered.org> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:04:28PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > >                                                Why does setting them in
> > > /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/loader.conf not work ? 
> > 
> > You're doing something wrong.  That's all I can say when the
> > description of the failure is just "not work".
> 
> Allow me to expand on that then... I put the options in /etc/sysctl.conf
> as follows:
> kern.ipc.somaxconn=512
> kern.ipc.shmmax=268435456
> kern.ipc.shmall=65536
> kern.ipc.shmmni=128
> kern.ipc.semmns=256
> 
> When I reboot, sysctl -a | grep kern.ipc.semmns returns
> kern.ipc.semmns: 60

Hmm.  I just checked, and it's working fine for me under yesterday's -STABLE.
Are you getting any error messages at boot when sysctl.conf is evaluated?