From 9785934b4500e95a38c8a3d87e9875da65ab04df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rwatson Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:36:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Reword parts of tuning(7) regarding loader tunables, which are refered to in the document as "boot-time sysctls". Instead, refer to them as loader tunables. --- share/man/man7/tuning.7 | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 index aeda3a86ba73..f5ec38826bb8 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 @@ -524,17 +524,16 @@ In a small system this option will have a detrimental effect but in a large system that is already doing moderate paging this option allows the VM system to stage whole processes into and out of memory more easily. -.Sh BOOT-TIME SYSCTL TUNING -Some sysctls may not be tunable at runtime because the memory allocations -they perform must occur early in the boot process. -To change these sysctls, -you must set their value in +.Sh LOADER TUNABLES +Some aspects of the system behavior may not be tunable at runtime because +memory allocates they perform must occur early in the boot process. +To change loader tunables, you must set their value in .Xr loader.conf 5 and reboot the system. .Pp The .Va kern.maxusers -sysctl defaults to an incredibly low value. +tunable defaults to an incredibly low value. For most modern machines, you probably want to increase this value to 64, 128, or 256. We do not @@ -544,7 +543,7 @@ kernel option. Do not increase maxusers just to get more network mbufs. Systems older than .Fx 4.4 -do not have this sysctl and require that +do not have this loader tunable and require that the kernel .Xr config 8 option @@ -580,7 +579,7 @@ option to may be used to observe network cluster use. Older versions of .Fx -do not have this sysctl and require that the +do not have this tunable and require that the kernel .Xr config 8 option