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Date:      Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:03:53 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing param.c for different environments 
Message-ID:  <199904020203.SAA01387@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:31:31 %2B0200." <37008BE3.C4AC882B@cdsec.com> 

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> Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW, I am slowly pulling the items specified in param.c into such a
> > shape that they can be individually tuned (from the bootloader).
> > 
> > This is, unfortunately, going to be a 3+ -ism only.
> 
> Still, that's good news (we won't use 2.2.7 for ever). It would still
> be useful to have some real world examples from big sites. For example,
> the Walnut Creek FTP server itself...

The issue is mostly just that the various paramters tend to be pushed 
around to suit the behaviour of a given system, and that doesn't really 
tend to follow the "generic" application of a system much.

> And does anyone know how these parameters are tuned in NetBSD and
> OpenBSD? Are they also statically predefined before kernel compilation,
> or tuneable at boot? And are they a function of MAXUSERS, or a more
> complex function of MAXUSERS, available RAM, etc?

OpenBSD/NetBSD use the static configuration like we used to; the 
boot-time tunables are my recent additions.

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