From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 17:52:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.austclear.com.au (ns1.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670FE37B403 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns1.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7T0qPv81303; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:52:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18243; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:52:25 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200108290052.KAA18243@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Kory Hamzeh" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting sysctl variables at boot time In-Reply-To: Message from "Kory Hamzeh" of "Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:48:08 MST." <006b01c13024$45546800$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:52:25 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kory@avatar.com said: > I'm trying to enable IDE write caching by setting hw.ata.wc to 1 at > boot time. The FreeBSD Handbook states that this should be done at > boot time. So I've added 'hw.ata.wc="1"' to boot /boot/defaults/ > loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf, but it seems as if it is not > working. I also am trying to enable directory caching via the > vfs.vmiodirenable variable and getting the same results (not being > enabled). You should put sysctl setting in /etc/sysctl.conf to have them activated during the boot process. Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message