Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:21:54 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Message-ID: <20011206112154.A62791@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0112061058020.22493-100000@niwun.pair.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:05:15AM -0500 References: <20011206105458.A62092@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <Pine.BSF.4.30.0112061058020.22493-100000@niwun.pair.com>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:05:15AM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> This discussion about shipping mulitple kernels is getting silly, as
> nothing in this discussion has addressed why we need multiple kernels. As
> of 4.4, nearly every important setting can be tuned through options in
> loader.conf; I updated the tuning manpage to recognize this a few weeks
> ago. Give it a look over, I think most everything can be done with those
> settings.
I'm not stuck on the idea of doing it with a kernel, using loader.conf
is fine. I do think there are a number of relatively statically
configured things (most of them dependant on maxusers by default)
that loader.conf probably can't change now.
Put generically, I want to see a way for users to have FreeBSD make
better use of their hardware with at-most them having to select a
single option of a menu of 4-5 choices. The guy who just bought
a gig of ram because it came in a cracker jack box should be able
to click the 'use an obscene amount of memory to make everything
faster' button, without having to understand the 300+ things he
could tune in a kernel, or loader.conf, or whereever else you can
set things.
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