On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Nate Lawson wrote:
I personally think that all tunable should be read-only (or rw if
possible) sysctls...
I'm still not sure why we have both mechanisms. Perhaps a useful
approach
would be to sweep the tree for tunables and change them to sysctls with
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Michael Smith wrote:
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No.
The two are different things, although arguably there should be more
integration.
The tunable mechanism exists to allow parameters to be set before the
kernel starts.
Things that are set with tunables tend to be things that used
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
It makes sense to export the values set by tunables into the sysctl
MIB, but by their
very nature they're not suitable for conversion to sysctls.
= Mike
So is what you are saying...
tuneables should be converted at boot to
