From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 8:22:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B5C37B42A for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fB6GLsl62893; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:21:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:21:54 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell To: Mike Silbersack Cc: "Michael R. Wayne" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Message-ID: <20011206112154.A62791@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Silbersack , "Michael R. Wayne" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011206105458.A62092@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:05:15AM -0500 Organization: United Federation of Planets Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:05:15AM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > This discussion about shipping mulitple kernels is getting silly, as > nothing in this discussion has addressed why we need multiple kernels. As > of 4.4, nearly every important setting can be tuned through options in > loader.conf; I updated the tuning manpage to recognize this a few weeks > ago. Give it a look over, I think most everything can be done with those > settings. I'm not stuck on the idea of doing it with a kernel, using loader.conf is fine. I do think there are a number of relatively statically configured things (most of them dependant on maxusers by default) that loader.conf probably can't change now. Put generically, I want to see a way for users to have FreeBSD make better use of their hardware with at-most them having to select a single option of a menu of 4-5 choices. The guy who just bought a gig of ram because it came in a cracker jack box should be able to click the 'use an obscene amount of memory to make everything faster' button, without having to understand the 300+ things he could tune in a kernel, or loader.conf, or whereever else you can set things. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message