Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:12:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> Cc: vaevictus@socket.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's Message-ID: <199908141712.KAA07083@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:01:33 %2B1000." <19990814060133.20309.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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> 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. Stuff in /boot/loader.conf is just as reliable, providing you're not in the habit of randomly deleting files... -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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