diff options
author | rwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-12-06 19:36:21 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | rwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-12-06 19:36:21 +0000 |
commit | 9785934b4500e95a38c8a3d87e9875da65ab04df (patch) | |
tree | ac1641be17a0c22c438393919bafd53b70009f34 /share | |
parent | e0b71aa03cbc098290b312e891a5428c267b1cdb (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-9785934b4500e95a38c8a3d87e9875da65ab04df.zip FreeBSD-src-9785934b4500e95a38c8a3d87e9875da65ab04df.tar.gz |
Reword parts of tuning(7) regarding loader tunables, which are refered
to in the document as "boot-time sysctls". Instead, refer to them as
loader tunables.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/tuning.7 | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 index aeda3a8..f5ec3882 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 @@ -524,17 +524,16 @@ In a small system this option will have a detrimental effect but in a large system that is already doing moderate paging this option allows the VM system to stage whole processes into and out of memory more easily. -.Sh BOOT-TIME SYSCTL TUNING -Some sysctls may not be tunable at runtime because the memory allocations -they perform must occur early in the boot process. -To change these sysctls, -you must set their value in +.Sh LOADER TUNABLES +Some aspects of the system behavior may not be tunable at runtime because +memory allocates they perform must occur early in the boot process. +To change loader tunables, you must set their value in .Xr loader.conf 5 and reboot the system. .Pp The .Va kern.maxusers -sysctl defaults to an incredibly low value. +tunable defaults to an incredibly low value. For most modern machines, you probably want to increase this value to 64, 128, or 256. We do not @@ -544,7 +543,7 @@ kernel option. Do not increase maxusers just to get more network mbufs. Systems older than .Fx 4.4 -do not have this sysctl and require that +do not have this loader tunable and require that the kernel .Xr config 8 option @@ -580,7 +579,7 @@ option to may be used to observe network cluster use. Older versions of .Fx -do not have this sysctl and require that the +do not have this tunable and require that the kernel .Xr config 8 option |