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authordavidc <davidc@FreeBSD.org>2002-02-21 05:15:52 +0000
committerdavidc <davidc@FreeBSD.org>2002-02-21 05:15:52 +0000
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Document the hw.physmem kernel environment variable.
Reviewed by: alfred
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@@ -404,6 +404,13 @@ MIB variable.
Other variables are used to override kernel tunable parameters.
The following tunables are available:
.Bl -tag -width Va
+.It Va hw.physmem
+Limit the amount of phyiscal memory the system will use.
+By default the size is in bytes, but the k, K, m, M, g and G suffixes
+are also accepted and indicate kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes
+respectively.
+An invalid suffix will result in the variable being ignored by the
+kernel.
.It Va kern.maxusers
Set the size of a number of statically allocated system tables; see
.Xr tuning 7
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