Re: [HACKERS] [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

2012-08-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 05:24:06PM -0700, Brad Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 06:43:52PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan writes: > > > Since I didn't actually tell you that I've made a context diff > > > for you, and it's attached. I'll let someone with more FBSD-fu than me > >

Re: [HACKERS] [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

2012-01-03 Thread Brad Davis
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 06:43:52PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: > > Since I didn't actually tell you that I've made a context diff > > for you, and it's attached. I'll let someone with more FBSD-fu than me > > actually comment on it. > > I have no FBSD-fu whatever, but the qu

Re: [HACKERS] [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > Since I didn't actually tell you that I've made a context diff > for you, and it's attached. I'll let someone with more FBSD-fu than me > actually comment on it. I have no FBSD-fu whatever, but the question this patch raises in my mind is whether /boot/loader.conf exist

Re: [HACKERS] [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 01/03/2012 06:15 PM, Brad Davis wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:02:57PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 01/03/2012 04:49 PM, Brad Davis wrote: Hi, I have a patch that improves the documentation for FreeBSD Kernel Tuning: - Show a # prompt instead of $ to indicate a root shell is neede

Re: [HACKERS] [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

2012-01-03 Thread Brad Davis
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:02:57PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > On 01/03/2012 04:49 PM, Brad Davis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a patch that improves the documentation for FreeBSD Kernel Tuning: > > > > - Show a # prompt instead of $ to indicate a root shell is needed > > - Remove the -w f

Re: [HACKERS] [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 01/03/2012 04:49 PM, Brad Davis wrote: Hi, I have a patch that improves the documentation for FreeBSD Kernel Tuning: - Show a # prompt instead of $ to indicate a root shell is needed - Remove the -w flag to sysctl since it is not needed anymore and just silently ignored - Encourage the us

[HACKERS] [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

2012-01-03 Thread Brad Davis
Hi, I have a patch that improves the documentation for FreeBSD Kernel Tuning: - Show a # prompt instead of $ to indicate a root shell is needed - Remove the -w flag to sysctl since it is not needed anymore and just silently ignored - Encourage the user to set the read-only sysctls in /boot/loade