From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 19 3:21:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D83737B404 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:21:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:21:32 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16yVTo-0000cA-00; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:19:00 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:19:00 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Michael Reifenberger Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for pointers: loader, sysctl, kern.ipc.semmni &co. In-Reply-To: <20020419002206.I597-100000@nihil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jan Grant wrote: > ... > > Sorry if this is a newbie question: > > > > I'm looking to tune (amongst others) kern.ipc.semmni; looking at the > > code (sys/kern/sysv_sem.c) the value seems pretty hardwired - proof > > against anything short of a kernel rebuild. > Take a closer look. > Esp. in seminit() starting at line 162 ( -current ). > You'll see a bunch of TUNABLE_INT_FETCH(...). > These are tunable during loader(8) time. Cheers; the -current stuff looks a lot more admin-friendly than -stable. [never occurred to me that this might already be fixed and awaiting 5-release] -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk On modesty: whoever said "it's hard being perfect" obviously wasn't me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message