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From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Lack of tuning params in BSD
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Date: 14 Oct 93 15:19:37 GMT
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root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes:

>I have noticed that BSD does not have the same kernel tuning parameters
>as System V, like the max. number of processes, max number of mounted
>file systems, or max. number of open files.

>Does BSD dynamically allocate all of these, making tuning unnecessary?

A bit, but in general you can tune things in the kernel config file
(/sys/conf/<MACHINE>) or in the param.c file.

Wilko

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