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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 1996 19:50:02 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        tbrown@vcsun2.tamu.edu (Tom Brown)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kgdb 
Message-ID:  <199601210350.TAA11638@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:15:48 CST." <9601210215.AA00371@vcsun1.tamu.edu> 

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>i'm trying to reboot my freebsd 2.1 system after making a
>change the value of a global variable (ifqmaxlen) with
>
>#gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem
>
>(kgdb) set ifqmaxlen=5
>
>how do i reboot the system so that the new value sticks?

   Hi Tom. The setting above only changes the in-core copy of the kernel
image. You'll have to change the initialization of ifqmaxlen in /sys/net/if.c
and recompile the kernel in order to make it permanent.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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