Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:10:24 GMT From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/98974: Missing tunables in loader(8) manpage Message-ID: <200606151110.k5FBANl2097755@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/98974; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: jelte@NLnetLabs.nl, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/98974: Missing tunables in loader(8) manpage Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:02:35 -0400 On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:52:27 +0100 Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: > On 15/6/06 09:41, "Jelte Jansen" <jelte@NLnetLabs.nl> wrote: > > > Some tunables (at least kern.maxdsiz, to set the maximum allowed datasize for > > processes which defaults to 512 mb) are not documented in any manual page i > > could find. These would probably go in loader(8). The only place i found where > > it is even mentioned is /boot/defaults/loader.conf, but the information there > > is too sparse to know what values to use and what it's for. > > Some moons ago, Tom Rhodes was working on a new manpage for tunables. > > Tom, is this still ongoing (or did it even get committed and I didn't > notice)? And I was really wondering if I should follow up. It appears there is a slight difference between tunables and sysctls. To be honest, I don't see it, but yea. Anyway, I created a simple script to find and document as many as plausible: src/tools/tools/sysdoc If someone can do something better with it, then yay. Eventually I may redo it in C, but I doubt. -- Tom Rhodes
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