conf/134258: /boot/default/loader.conf contains untrue default
Dan Naumov
dan.naumov at gmail.com
Thu May 7 08:40:05 UTC 2009
The following reply was made to PR conf/134258; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com>
To: remko at elvandar.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/134258: /boot/default/loader.conf contains untrue default
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 11:07:28 +0300
From a user perspective: If a config file is in /boot/DEFAULT, I
expect the config file to contain DEFAULT values used for the booting
process. If the file is merely an EXAMPLE, it should be somewhere
else.
Sincerely,
Dan Naumov
P.S: The reason I was changing the value was precisely because I am
running the installation inside a VM and after experiencing problems
with wildly drifting time, I was told to adjust kern.hz to "100",
however the /boot/default/loader.conf file already had the commented
line #kern.hz=3D"100" resulting in confusion.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org> wrote:
>
>> The file /boot/default/loader.conf contains the following line:
>>
>> #kern.hz=3D"100" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Set the kernel int=
erval timer rate
>>
>> which would imply that unless a different value is set in
>> /boot/loader.conf, the system should use a 100 hz rate by default. This
>> however is not true (at least on amd64), by default the system uses a 10=
00
>> hz rate and a simple act of copying /boot/default/loader.conf to /boot/
>> and uncommenting the kern.hz line will change system behavior.
>>>How-To-Repeat:
>>
>
> HEllo,
>
> It does not say that this si the default setting, it's an example on how
> to specify the values and what it does. 100Hz is commonly used for virtua=
l
> machines. If one modifies this behaviour he/she needs to know what he is
> doing. If you do not know it, why change it? It could only harm. I do
> agree that this might be a tad confusing though, I'll ponder on changing
> it.
>
> Thanks!
> rEmko
>
>
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