Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:45:05 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 Message-ID: <20011207084505.26246.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011206151255.21187I-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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hi... i think that would be great.... as i have also noticed.. that some of the tunables are there without an explanation, such as kern.maxusers i mean... the option does not say about the rule used (kern.maxuser x XX x XX).... but i am looking for stuff like that and gonna fixup soon.... thats my target for now-days.. :-) -Hiten --- Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > o Add an additional .Pp between the > send/recvbuffer comments and > > > the ones on ipfw. Note to self: why does > ipfw/dummynet count as > > > a sysctl in tuning(7)? > > > > I have to admit it is the first time i read this > manpage, and from the > > CGI interface on www.freebsd.org, so the one i see > might be out of date, > > but I have the impression that the document should > be slightly > > restructured, by putting a short introduction > paragraph listing which > > subsystems are covered, mentioning that most of > the subsystems can be > > controlled/configured using kernel config options, > sysctls and boot-time > > tunables, and then completely removing the SYSCTL > section (whose content > > goes into the subsystem's sections). > > Yeah, I tend to agree. I probably don't have time > to do more than the > cursory updates right now, but as a longer term > goal, that sounds like an > excellent approach to improving it. > > Another improvement we need to make is to find the > places in the source > code where many of these constants are defined, and > make sure to put > documentation cross-references into the code. That > might improve the > degree to which the documentation of constants is > kept in sync. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, > TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport > Network Services > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message ===== thanks... regards... Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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