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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:19:00 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.plaut.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Looking for pointers: loader, sysctl, kern.ipc.semmni &co.
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204191117290.17335-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020419002206.I597-100000@nihil>

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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]

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