Unchangeable sysctl's in FreeBSD10.0 Stable

[Rolf Nielsen]

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On 2014-06-18 11:17, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:
> While migrating from 9.2 Stable (9.3Beta3) to 10.0Stable (r267307M)
> I noticed that some of the sysctl's that I adjust for tuning
> purposes aren't writeable, instead sysctl returns an "Invalid
> argument".  The two sysctl's of interest are: 
> net.flowtable.maxflows and kern.ipc.maxsockets
> 
> Would someone advise the new way that these can be adjusted to
> suite the purpose of the servers?   There was no mention in
> src/UPDATING.
> 
> Regards, Dewayne.

If you set them in /etc/sysctl.conf, try setting them in
/boot/loader.conf instead.

Rolf
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