Bug 32020
| Summary: | loader(8) missing tunables | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Bruce A. Mah <bmah> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Tom Rhodes <trhodes> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
Bruce A. Mah
2001-11-15 23:40:01 UTC
Environment 5.0-CURRENT user i think, it would be great if we had a central file, (some sort of SGML or plain text file) which had all the tunables also categorized... this would make it easier for people, as they can visit the file and know which tunables are available on a given version of FreeBSD. BTW, a patch which adds kern.maxusers (v. important) to the loader.8 man page, as there was only kern.ipc.nmbclusters in the file... =Hiten =<hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> *** loader.8.old Fri Dec 7 09:04:51 2001 --- loader.8 Fri Dec 7 09:04:59 2001 *************** *** 397,402 **** --- 397,411 ---- Other variables are used to override kernel tunable parameters. The following tunables are available: .Bl -tag -width Va + .It Va kern.maxusers + Sets the static sizing number of the internal + systems table. The tunable defaults to a very + low value. We recommend modifying the value + for this tunable to (default: 32) 64, 128 or + 256. Please do not assign a value higher + than 256 unless you need a huge amount of file + descriptors. Modifies kernel config(8) + .Va maxusers . .It Va kern.ipc.nmbclusters Set the number of mbuf clusters to be allocated. The value cannot be set below the default ===== -Hiten, Thank You, Yours Sincerely, Hiten Pandya, <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com hi, This PR can now be closed, as most of the tunables are in the loader(8) man page, and I have also submitted a patch to the kern.maxusers tunable addition, in my last follow-up before this one to this PR.. I am currently working on making a list -- SSH Fingerprint: 1024 45:a5:9c:f2:fb:07:da:70:18:02:0b:f3:63:f1:7a:a6 hitenp@hpdi.ath.cx hi, oops, the last followup was mocked up because of my mailer.. (this followup might have ^M characters) This PR can be closed, as I am currently working on an article which will list all the various tunables and how to use them. I also submitted a patch for the loader(8) man page to address the kern.maxusers boot-time tunable, which was sent on Tue, 11 Dec 2001 04:25:37 -0800 (PST) as a follow-up to this PR. thanks, regards, - Hiten - <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> -- SSH Fingerprint: 1024 45:a5:9c:f2:fb:07:da:70:18:02:0b:f3:63:f1:7a:a6 hitenp@hpdi.ath.cx If memory serves me right, Hiten Pandya wrote: > This PR can be closed, as I am currently working on an article which > will list all the various tunables and how to use them. No. In the FreeBSD Project, we do not close PRs until they are in some way resolved. This normally means that the problem gets fixed, or that it is no longer an issue. Although I encourage your work on documenting the loader tunables, PR 32020 should stay open until the loader(8) manpage is completed. > I also > submitted > a patch for the loader(8) man page to address the kern.maxusers > boot-time > tunable, which was sent on Tue, 11 Dec 2001 04:25:37 -0800 (PST) as a > follow-up to this PR. You also submitted the patch twice, in two separate PRs, which I closed because: 1) The information you gave was superceded by the autotuning maxusers code and 2) someone already committed the correct information. Bruce. Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes In line with my tunables documentation project. State Changed From-To: open->closed The maxusers loader tunable was added to loader(8) some time ago. Close this PR, thanks! |
