From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 14 3:24:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDAB314A14 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 03:24:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au) Received: (qmail 20310 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Aug 1999 16:01:33 +1000 Message-ID: <19990814060133.20309.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:01:33 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Mike Smith Cc: vaevictus@socket.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's References: <199908132314.QAA01744@dingo.cdrom.com> In-reply-to: <199908132314.QAA01744@dingo.cdrom.com> of Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:14:56 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith writes: > > options NMBCLUSTERS=4096 > > > > You can check the current value by "sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters" > > but you can only change the value by changing the kernel config, > > building and installing a new kernel and rebooting. > > You can tune this at boot time on -stable and -current systems; check > 'help set tunables' in the loader. I had originally written "you can't set it with sysctl -w" and probably should have left it at that. I never use boot time loader stuff because it's too easy to lose it, whereas things that you set in the kernel config tend to be reliable. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message