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9.0 KiB
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309 lines
9.0 KiB
Groff
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.\" From: @(#)sysctl.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 28, 2007
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.Dt SYSCTL 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm sysctl
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.Nd get or set kernel state
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl bdehNnoqx
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.Ar name Ns Op = Ns Ar value
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.Ar ...
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.Nm
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.Op Fl bdehNnoqx
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.Fl a
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility retrieves kernel state and allows processes with appropriate
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privilege to set kernel state.
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The state to be retrieved or set is described using a
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.Dq Management Information Base
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.Pq Dq MIB
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style name, described as a dotted set of
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components.
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.Pp
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The following options are available:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl A
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Equivalent to
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.Fl o a
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(for compatibility).
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.It Fl a
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List all the currently available non-opaque values.
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This option is ignored if one or more variable names are specified on
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the command line.
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.It Fl b
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Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
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No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
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This is mostly useful with a single variable.
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.It Fl d
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Print the description of the variable instead of its value.
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.It Fl e
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Separate the name and the value of the variable(s) with
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.Ql = .
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This is useful for producing output which can be fed back to the
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.Nm
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utility.
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This option is ignored if either
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.Fl N
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or
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.Fl n
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is specified, or a variable is being set.
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.It Fl h
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Format output for human, rather than machine, readability.
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.It Fl N
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Show only variable names, not their values.
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This is particularly useful with shells that offer programmable
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completion.
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To enable completion of variable names in
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.Xr zsh 1 Pq Pa ports/shells/zsh ,
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use the following code:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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listsysctls () { set -A reply $(sysctl -AN ${1%.*}) }
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compctl -K listsysctls sysctl
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.Ed
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.Pp
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To enable completion of variable names in
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.Xr tcsh 1 ,
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use:
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.Pp
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.Dl "complete sysctl 'n/*/`sysctl -Na`/'"
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.It Fl n
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Show only variable values, not their names.
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This option is useful for setting shell variables.
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For instance, to save the pagesize in variable
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.Va psize ,
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use:
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.Pp
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.Dl "set psize=`sysctl -n hw.pagesize`"
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.It Fl o
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Show opaque variables (which are normally suppressed).
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The format and length are printed, as well as a hex dump of the first
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sixteen bytes of the value.
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.It Fl q
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Suppress some warnings generated by
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.Nm
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to standard error.
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.It Fl X
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Equivalent to
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.Fl x a
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(for compatibility).
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.It Fl x
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As
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.Fl o ,
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but prints a hex dump of the entire value instead of just the first
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few bytes.
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.El
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.Pp
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The information available from
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.Nm
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consists of integers, strings, devices
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.Pq Vt dev_t ,
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and opaque types.
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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only knows about a couple of opaque types, and will resort to hexdumps
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for the rest.
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The opaque information is much more useful if retrieved by special
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purpose programs such as
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.Xr ps 1 ,
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.Xr systat 1 ,
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and
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.Xr netstat 1 .
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.Pp
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Some of the variables which cannot be modified during normal system
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operation can be initialized via
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.Xr loader 8
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tunables.
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This can for example be done by setting them in
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.Xr loader.conf 5 .
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Please refer to
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.Xr loader.conf 5
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for more information on which tunables are available and how to set them.
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.Pp
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The string and integer information is summarized below.
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For a detailed description of these variable see
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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.Pp
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The changeable column indicates whether a process with appropriate
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privilege can change the value.
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String, integer, and devices values can be set using
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.Nm .
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For device values,
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.Ar value
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can be specified as a character device special file name.
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Special values
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.Cm off
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and
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.Cm none
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denote
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.Dq no device .
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.Bl -column security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf integerxxx
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.It Sy "Name Type Changeable
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.It "kern.ostype string no
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.It "kern.osrelease string no
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.It "kern.osrevision integer no
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.It "kern.version string no
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.It "kern.maxvnodes integer yes
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.It "kern.maxproc integer no
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.It "kern.maxprocperuid integer yes
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.It "kern.maxfiles integer yes
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.It "kern.maxfilesperproc integer yes
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.It "kern.argmax integer no
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.It "kern.securelevel integer raise only
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.It "kern.hostname string yes
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.It "kern.hostid integer yes
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.It "kern.clockrate struct no
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.It "kern.posix1version integer no
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.It "kern.ngroups integer no
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.It "kern.job_control integer no
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.It "kern.saved_ids integer no
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.It "kern.boottime struct no
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.It "kern.domainname string yes
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.It "kern.filedelay integer yes
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.It "kern.dirdelay integer yes
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.It "kern.metadelay integer yes
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.It "kern.osreldate string no
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.It "kern.bootfile string yes
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.It "kern.corefile string yes
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.It "kern.logsigexit integer yes
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.It "security.bsd.suser_enabled integer yes
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.It "security.bsd.see_other_uids integer yes
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.It "security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug integer yes
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.It "security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf integer yes
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.It "vm.loadavg struct no
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.It "hw.machine string no
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.It "hw.model string no
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.It "hw.ncpu integer no
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.It "hw.byteorder integer no
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.It "hw.physmem integer no
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.It "hw.usermem integer no
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.It "hw.pagesize integer no
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.It "hw.floatingpoint integer no
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.It "hw.machine_arch string no
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.It "hw.realmem integer no
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.It "machdep.console_device dev_t no
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.It "machdep.adjkerntz integer yes
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.It "machdep.disable_rtc_set integer yes
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.It "machdep.guessed_bootdev string no
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.It "user.cs_path string no
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.It "user.bc_base_max integer no
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.It "user.bc_dim_max integer no
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.It "user.bc_scale_max integer no
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.It "user.bc_string_max integer no
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.It "user.coll_weights_max integer no
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.It "user.expr_nest_max integer no
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.It "user.line_max integer no
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.It "user.re_dup_max integer no
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.It "user.posix2_version integer no
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.It "user.posix2_c_bind integer no
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.It "user.posix2_c_dev integer no
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.It "user.posix2_char_term integer no
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.It "user.posix2_fort_dev integer no
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.It "user.posix2_fort_run integer no
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.It "user.posix2_localedef integer no
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.It "user.posix2_sw_dev integer no
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.It "user.posix2_upe integer no
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.It "user.stream_max integer no
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.It "user.tzname_max integer no
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".In netinet/icmp_var.h" -compact
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.It In sys/sysctl.h
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definitions for top level identifiers, second level kernel and hardware
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identifiers, and user level identifiers
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.It In sys/socket.h
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definitions for second level network identifiers
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.It In sys/gmon.h
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definitions for third level profiling identifiers
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.It In vm/vm_param.h
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definitions for second level virtual memory identifiers
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.It In netinet/in.h
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definitions for third level Internet identifiers and
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fourth level IP identifiers
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.It In netinet/icmp_var.h
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definitions for fourth level ICMP identifiers
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.It In netinet/udp_var.h
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definitions for fourth level UDP identifiers
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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For example, to retrieve the maximum number of processes allowed
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in the system, one would use the following request:
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.Pp
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.Dl "sysctl kern.maxproc"
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.Pp
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To set the maximum number of processes allowed
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per uid to 1000, one would use the following request:
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.Pp
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.Dl "sysctl kern.maxprocperuid=1000"
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.Pp
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Information about the system clock rate may be obtained with:
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.Pp
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.Dl "sysctl kern.clockrate"
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.Pp
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Information about the load average history may be obtained with:
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.Pp
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.Dl "sysctl vm.loadavg"
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.Pp
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More variables than these exist, and the best and likely only place
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to search for their deeper meaning is undoubtedly the source where
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they are defined.
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.Sh COMPATIBILITY
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The
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.Fl w
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option has been deprecated and is silently ignored.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sysctl 3 ,
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.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
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.Xr sysctl.conf 5 ,
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.Xr loader 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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utility first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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.Pp
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In
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.Fx 2.2 ,
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.Nm
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was significantly remodeled.
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Nm
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utility presently exploits an undocumented interface to the kernel
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sysctl facility to traverse the sysctl tree and to retrieve format
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and name information.
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This correct interface is being thought about for the time being.
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