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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:28:18 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysadminmag update
Message-ID:  <20011005142818.D32040@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BBD8527.449C8537@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:02:15AM -0700
References:  <20010720030757.A7504@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B585CC8.480BA14D@mindspring.com> <20010720174929.A17080@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B592F01.D9ED5404@mindspring.com> <20011004193802.E24976@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3BBD8527.449C8537@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:02:15AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
| j mckitrick wrote:
| > 
| > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:28:01AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
| > | j mckitrick wrote:
| > | >
| > | > here it is:
| > | >
| > | > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0108/0108q/0108q.htm
| > |
| > | The "tuning" they did for the sockets and other things
| > | is still wrong; most of those things are impossible to
| > | set at anything other than boot time.  The numbers will
| > | go up, but the available number of objects sitting in
| > | the allocation pools will not.
| > 
| > Is this documented?  Several sysctl options say in the manpage that they
| > only work at boot time.
| 
| It is not well documented.  Most of the FreeBSD early code
| is not well documented, nor is its memory footprint, or
| what is used, when, and what's preallocated, where, and
| wehere it's managed.

Hmm.  Maybe a good stopgap message would be to show which sysctl values
work dynamically, and which must be handled at boot time.


jm
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My other computer is your windows box.

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