--- b/usr.sbin/config/config.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/config/config.5 @@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ A value of 0 indicates that the kernel should configure its data structures according to the size of available physical memory. If auto configuration is requested, the kernel will set -this tunable to a value between 32 and 384. +this tunable to a value between 32 and 384 for 32-bit systems, +or scale the value higher based on available memory for 64-bit +systems. .Pp As explained in .Xr tuning 7 ,