docs/98974: Missing tunables in loader(8) manpage

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Thu Jun 15 11:00:57 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/98974; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: Jelte Jansen <jelte at NLnetLabs.nl>,
	<freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/98974: Missing tunables in loader(8) manpage
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:52:27 +0100

 On 15/6/06 09:41, "Jelte Jansen" <jelte at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:
 
 > Some tunables (at least kern.maxdsiz, to set the maximum allowed datasize for
 > processes which defaults to 512 mb) are not documented in any manual page i
 > could find. These would probably go in loader(8). The only place i found where
 > it is even mentioned is /boot/defaults/loader.conf, but the information there
 > is too sparse to know what values to use and what it's for.
 
 Some moons ago, Tom Rhodes was working on a new manpage for tunables.
 
 Tom, is this still ongoing (or did it even get committed and I didn't
 notice)?
 
 Ceri
 
 



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