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authorkevlo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>2012-11-05 02:34:52 +0000
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 5, 2012
+.Dd May 11, 2012
.Dt TUNING 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -803,22 +803,24 @@ To change loader tunables, you must set their values in
.Xr loader.conf 5
and reboot the system.
.Pp
-.Va kern.maxbikesheds
+.Va kern.maxusers
controls the scaling of a number of static system tables, including defaults
for the maximum number of open files, sizing of network memory resources, etc.
-.Va kern.maxbikesheds
+As of
+.Fx 4.5 ,
+.Va kern.maxusers
is automatically sized at boot based on the amount of memory available in
the system, and may be determined at run-time by inspecting the value of the
read-only
-.Va kern.maxbikesheds
+.Va kern.maxusers
sysctl.
Some sites will require larger or smaller values of
-.Va kern.maxbikesheds
+.Va kern.maxusers
and may set it as a loader tunable; values of 64, 128, and 256 are not
uncommon.
We do not recommend going above 256 unless you need a huge number
of file descriptors; many of the tunable values set to their defaults by
-.Va kern.maxbikesheds
+.Va kern.maxusers
may be individually overridden at boot-time or run-time as described
elsewhere in this document.
Systems older than
@@ -895,7 +897,7 @@ sysctl controls the number of file system buffers
is allowed to use to perform its work.
This parameter nominally scales
with
-.Va kern.maxbikesheds
+.Va kern.maxusers
so you should not need to modify this parameter except under extreme
circumstances.
See the
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