Re: loader.conf options

2011-07-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, wayne mitchell wrote: am trying to configure my new system (FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC amd64 - on an intel core 2 duo) I'd suggest upgrading to 8.2-RELEASE or 8-STABLE. and find all possible settings to tweak i can tell from documentation that there are many options pos

Re: Loader.conf mfs statements

2010-03-04 Thread Fbsd1
Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:48:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing. In its loader.conf file i see these statements geom_uzip_load="YES" mfs_load="YES" mfs_type="mfs_root" mfs_name-"/mfsroot" tmpfs_laod="YES" vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/mdo Where

Re: Loader.conf mfs statements

2010-03-04 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:48:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: > Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing. > In its loader.conf file i see these statements > geom_uzip_load="YES" > mfs_load="YES" > mfs_type="mfs_root" > mfs_name-"/mfsroot" > tmpfs_laod="YES" > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/mdo > > Where d

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem="1G"# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the "#" and change that to "2G"? # mean commented out. leave it as is or delete. you don't have to specify it unless yo

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread gahn
Thanks for the detailed information. Best --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Matthew Seaman wrote: > From: Matthew Seaman > Subject: Re: loader.conf > To: ipfr...@yahoo.com > Cc: "freebsd general questions" > Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 9:03 AM > gahn wrote: > > Hi a

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
gahn wrote: Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem="1G"# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the "#" and change that to "2G"? Interestingly, the sysctl indicates the parameter of "hw.physmem" is not chan

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
2009/4/10 Fernando Apesteguía : > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:32 PM, gahn wrote: >> >> Hi all: >> >> I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: >> >> #hw.physmem="1G"                # Limit physical memory. See loader(8) >> >> Could I remove the "#" and change that t

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:32 PM, gahn wrote: > > Hi all: > > I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: > > #hw.physmem="1G"                # Limit physical memory. See loader(8) > > Could I remove the "#" and change that to "2G"? Yes, but if your purpose is to us

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
gahn wrote: Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem="1G"# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the "#" and change that to "2G"? Yes, but, would it make a difference? Interestingly, the sysctl indicates t

Re: loader.conf fbsd 7-release

2008-12-16 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:19 -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: > Hi all; > > I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in > /boot > > Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. > > Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. > > I need to add >

Re: loader.conf fbsd 7-release

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:19:54 -0500, "Gary Hartl" wrote: > Hi all; > > I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in > /boot > > Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. > > Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. No, you're comple

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-12-04 Thread Weldon S Godfrey 3
Thanks, I meant to update this earlier, it appears that the kmem tunables need a larger cast in 7.x (to use beyond 4GB kernel memory map), I opened a ticket yesterday. If memory serves me right, sometime around Yesterday, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-12-04 Thread Valentin Bud
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Weldon S Godfrey 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did a quick search for this and didn't see anyone seeing this. > > I am running 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 > > This is my loader.conf: > > vm.kmem_size_max="16106127360" > vm.kmem_size="1073741824" > kern.maxvnodes="8

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-12-03 Thread eculp
Weldon S Godfrey 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I did a quick search for this and didn't see anyone seeing this. I am running 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 This is my loader.conf: vm.kmem_size_max="16106127360" vm.kmem_size="1073741824" kern.maxvnodes="80" I've always changed those variables

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-07-29 Thread Troy Kocher
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Vincent Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troy Kocher wrote: >> >> Listers, >> >> For some reason my kernel setting aren't being recognized. . >> >> tao# more loader.conf >> geom_vinum_load="YES" >> kern.ipc.semmni=256 >> kern.ipc.semmns=512 >> kern.ipc.semmnu=25

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-07-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Troy Kocher wrote: Listers, For some reason my kernel setting aren't being recognized. . tao# more loader.conf geom_vinum_load="YES" kern.ipc.semmni=256 kern.ipc.semmns=512 kern.ipc.semmnu=256 kern.ipc.semmap=256 kern.ipc.shmall=32768 kern.ipc.shmmax=1 On reboot shmall & shmmax have to

Re: loader.conf != limits?

2006-02-27 Thread Randy Schultz
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Dan Nelson spaketh thusly: -}In the last episode (Feb 27), Randy Schultz said: -}> I've been running some code with larger data sets and needed to up -}> some kernerl parameters. I added this to loader.conf: -}>kern.maxdsiz="1073741824" -}>kern.dfldsiz="1073741824" -}

Re: loader.conf != limits?

2006-02-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 27), Randy Schultz said: > I've been running some code with larger data sets and needed to up > some kernerl parameters. I added this to loader.conf: >kern.maxdsiz="1073741824" >kern.dfldsiz="1073741824" >kern.maxssiz="134217728" > > The odd thing is limits sh

Re: loader.conf question

2005-10-21 Thread makisupa
That was a serious id10T error THanks, mak (i must need more coffee) On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 09:47 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > makisupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Got k3b installed and trying to sort out some issues. This is a 6.0RC1 > > with a custom kernel box. In /boot/loader.co

Re: loader.conf question

2005-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
makisupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Got k3b installed and trying to sort out some issues. This is a 6.0RC1 > with a custom kernel box. In /boot/loader.conf i pass a > 'load_atapicam="YES"'. This is the only argument there...but its not > working. Once booted if I simply 'kldload atapicam' ev