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

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 do I find

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 do I find

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 the

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:32 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com 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

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
2009/4/10 Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:32 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com 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

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 changeable.

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread gahn
Thanks for the detailed information. Best --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: loader.conf To: ipfr...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd general questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date

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 you

Re: loader.conf fbsd 7-release

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:19:54 -0500, Gary Hartl gha...@gmail.com 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

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 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=80 However,

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

2008-07-29 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 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=256 kern.ipc.semmap=256

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 shows:

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 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'

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.conf i