Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Apr 1998 18:53:14 -0400 | From | "Garst R. Reese" <> | Subject | Re: sysctl defaults |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > > I try cat "40 500 64 256 15 30*HZ 5*HZ 1884 2" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush ?? > > except changing something. Now I make a typo and crash my system. How do > > I recover. > > - the original defaults will be restored after boot > - you usually don't crash the machine while you're doing important > work, since you won't be working and hacking at the same time > - you have to do something _very_ strange to crash the machine, I once > catted the bdflush values to swapctl --> no crash or anything
Happy to hear that and also that I'm not the only one that does dumb s**t :)
> > I think we need some sysctl utilities that prove some sanity checks and > > some info that says "If you have a gig of mem you might like this" > > "If you have only 8Mb try this". > > Yes, we certainly need something like that. A good ncurses/X interface > with proper help is the way to go. > > Of course the program needs to be split in an engine and a > kernel-data file, so you don't have to recompile the thing > when you upgrade your kernel... > > All we have to do now is find some volunteers :) > > Rik. Fraid I can't help much there. I mostly do math thingies. -- Thanks, Garst
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