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diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 index b859c28..ae68bab 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 11, 2012 +.Dd November 5, 2012 .Dt TUNING 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -803,24 +803,22 @@ To change loader tunables, you must set their values in .Xr loader.conf 5 and reboot the system. .Pp -.Va kern.maxusers +.Va kern.maxbikesheds 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. -As of -.Fx 4.5 , -.Va kern.maxusers +.Va kern.maxbikesheds 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.maxusers +.Va kern.maxbikesheds sysctl. Some sites will require larger or smaller values of -.Va kern.maxusers +.Va kern.maxbikesheds 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.maxusers +.Va kern.maxbikesheds may be individually overridden at boot-time or run-time as described elsewhere in this document. Systems older than @@ -897,7 +895,7 @@ sysctl controls the number of file system buffers is allowed to use to perform its work. This parameter nominally scales with -.Va kern.maxusers +.Va kern.maxbikesheds so you should not need to modify this parameter except under extreme circumstances. See the |