From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 12:04:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1D8106566B for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:04:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wayne.mitchell.iz@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com (mail-fx0-f44.google.com [209.85.161.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550D68FC13 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe6 with SMTP id 6so3820104fxe.17 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:04:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=/GHBNr1QPOQxn97YHe7/4UFNFkyeLnWI7myN30vJWF4=; b=AMJhU5Oxa/pgdX3aM2wXPjScaJYssIcvHq0IwHpPXx6NRR8gd2W9O9qYGtEae9Hzei k5sTI9eC9zZnRk8DhKdRMyYska94TkFX2TetNDsNRTyIMnjYFbWKqym2vxmD1tA2mNTP 89eaTaMVYp+FVpBiF6UgzEKRixq9nbRVuhWvY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.16.210 with SMTP id p18mr3693787faa.71.1310904289180; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.78.193 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:04:49 +0000 Message-ID: From: wayne mitchell To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: loader.conf options X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:04:50 -0000 hey am trying to configure my new system (FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC amd64 - on an intel core 2 duo) and find all possible settings to tweak i can tell from documentation that there are many options possible with /boot/loader.conf as well as others though i cannot find any definitive list i am sure that this - in some cases - depends on how the rest of system is configured hardware bios, software bios, kernel ... and so on i can never find the right value to set at the time that i want to set it always seems to be in passing while looking up something else am currently looking for values to tweak the kernel with, though would rather rely on module loading and loader.config settings and device.hints have got: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES man loader.conf man device.hints handbook FAQ am looking for: memory/bus (tweaks for I/O speeds / caching ...) attached hardware multimedia/sound/video/midi