Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:54:21 GMT From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/118545: loader tunables kern.dfldsiz and friends nearly undocumented Message-ID: <200712110854.lBB8sLtc023903@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200712110900.lBB908gA051458@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 118545 >Category: docs >Synopsis: loader tunables kern.dfldsiz and friends nearly undocumented >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 11 09:00:08 UTC 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bob Bishop >Release: 6.2R (also applies to HEAD) >Organization: GID ltd >Environment: FreeBSD yyy.zzz.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 >Description: Loader tunables kern.dfldsiz and friends are not documented in loader(8)/loader.conf(5) nor in the Handbook. There is a reference in the release note for 4.5R/i386, but apparently nothing made it into mainstream documentation. The tunables are enumerated in /boot/defaults/loader.conf, other available references are: http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-mar2005.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/freebsd.html >How-To-Repeat: See loader(8)/loader.conf(5), search web pages for dfldsiz >Fix: Suggest: adding a better pointer from loader(8) and/or loader.conf(5) to /boot/defaults/loader.conf, unless it's considered worth documenting these explicitly in the man page(s); and add a subsection to the Handbook section 11.13. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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