Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:53:11 +0200 From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c src/sys/kern subr_param.c kern_mib.c src/sys/sys systm.h Message-ID: <3B6736D7.DFC2771@webgiro.com> References: <200107282058.f6SKvwJ02435@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > > : Move param.c out of the conf directory and make it fully dynamic. > > > : Tunables are now derived at boot time from maxusers. ie: change maxuse > > rs > > > : via a tunable and all the derivative settings change. You can change > > > : the other tunables individually as well. Even hz etc is tunable. > > > > > > Maybe I missed it, but shouldn't these be documented somewhere? > > > > "Where?" is a damn good question... > > tunables(8) > > If nobody else has started on this already, I'll try to cull a list of > our current tunables and put a skeleton together today. > > I'm not sure how I feel about documenting these in the loader help; it's > starting to get pretty enormous. Maybe we need a way of reading catpages > from the loader? 8) 8) 8) Now, this is really sick, but... * loader can read /etc/fstab to see where /usr can be found * it can change media to read from /usr/../catX * loader supports a subset of cons25 emulation, so it can display color attributes and highlights * loader has a "more" functionality Tell me, why you think it's funny? We can do it today. ;-) -- Andrzej // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Chief System Architect // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // <abial@freebsd.org> FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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