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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: kernel config question
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <29s77c$fui@tut.msstate.edu> <29sbhi$dpp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 04:23:53 GMT
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In <29sbhi$dpp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

>In article <29s77c$fui@tut.msstate.edu>,
>>
>>1> Should i reconfigure my kernel? its working just fine right now.

>	There are those who say "if it ain't broke, doan' fix
>	it".  Of course, many would argue that these people are
>	a product of the North American Schooling system, and
>	really shouldn't be coming up with deep and meaningful
>	quotes.

Some reasons to reconfigure your kernel, apart from chucking out
devices you don't need:

- Changing the timezone setting - useful if you aren't 8 hours
   West of GMT, and don't have DST.
- Setting system parameters - eg the number of pty's - which is
   a rediculously small 4 to start with - I find 16 a more useful
   number.
- I also have quotas and fifos enabled

plus more reasons ...

Geoff.
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