Ignoring /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local?

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:56:05 +0000, Witzel, Stefan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on a system running FreeBSD 12.0 I want to run MongoDB (in a jail).
> According to https://vermaden.wordpress.com/tag/mongodb/ I tried to
> increase kern.maxproc.
> 
> The default value was 99999. For testing purposes I first add
> 
> kern.maxproc=100000
> 
> to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted: the value has not changed; the
> same result editing /boot/loader.conf.local.
> 
> Only if I edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf the value changed to 100000.

You should not change a defaults file, this is not intended.



> Are there other restrictions on kern.maxproc?

Did you try setting those vial /etc/sysctl.conf?



> Later I found all other entries in /boot/loader.conf are also ignored.

That looks very strange. But it might be due to the jail
construction which inherits the kernel values from the host...




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