Summary: | Missing tunables in loader(8) manpage | ||
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Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Jelte Jansen <jelte> |
Component: | Manual Pages | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | doc, imp |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | Latest | ||
Hardware: | Any | ||
OS: | Any |
Description
Jelte Jansen
2006-06-15 09:50:16 UTC
On 15/6/06 09:41, "Jelte Jansen" <jelte@NLnetLabs.nl> wrote: > Some tunables (at least kern.maxdsiz, to set the maximum allowed datasize for > processes which defaults to 512 mb) are not documented in any manual page i > could find. These would probably go in loader(8). The only place i found where > it is even mentioned is /boot/defaults/loader.conf, but the information there > is too sparse to know what values to use and what it's for. Some moons ago, Tom Rhodes was working on a new manpage for tunables. Tom, is this still ongoing (or did it even get committed and I didn't notice)? Ceri On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:52:27 +0100 Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: > On 15/6/06 09:41, "Jelte Jansen" <jelte@NLnetLabs.nl> wrote: > > > Some tunables (at least kern.maxdsiz, to set the maximum allowed datasize for > > processes which defaults to 512 mb) are not documented in any manual page i > > could find. These would probably go in loader(8). The only place i found where > > it is even mentioned is /boot/defaults/loader.conf, but the information there > > is too sparse to know what values to use and what it's for. > > Some moons ago, Tom Rhodes was working on a new manpage for tunables. > > Tom, is this still ongoing (or did it even get committed and I didn't > notice)? And I was really wondering if I should follow up. It appears there is a slight difference between tunables and sysctls. To be honest, I don't see it, but yea. Anyway, I created a simple script to find and document as many as plausible: src/tools/tools/sysdoc If someone can do something better with it, then yay. Eventually I may redo it in C, but I doubt. -- Tom Rhodes For the record. The src/tools/tools/sysdoc tool has nothing to do with loader(8) tunables; instead, a tool scans the installed kernel for sysctls which are not loader(8) tunables. (Some of the sysctls also have the tunables of the same name, but not necessarily.) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer For bugs matching the following criteria: Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01 Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags. Mail being skipped These are now documented. If there are specific ones that are still missing, please create a new bug. Thanks! |