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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:01:33 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        vaevictus@socket.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's 
Message-ID:  <19990814060133.20309.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <199908132314.QAA01744@dingo.cdrom.com>  of Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:14:56 MST
References:  <199908132314.QAA01744@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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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.

-- 
Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org>



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