Tuning Ultrix

[Yedidya Israel]

In article <24090 at adm.BRL.MIL>, mchinni at pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) writes:
>
> These tunable parameters can be modified by changing them in the
> /sys/hostname/makefile (our hostname is cc1 so our path is /sys/CC1/makefile).
> In our makefile the first two lines are as follows:
> IDENT=-DCC1 -DVAX8600 -DUFS -DNFS -DINET -DQUOTA
> PARAM=-DTIMEZONE=300 -DDST=1 -DMAXUSERS=128 -DMAXUPRC=50 -DPHYSMEM=12 -DNCPU=1
> -DDMMIN=32 -DDMMAX=1024 -DBUFCACHE=10
> The PARAM line is really one long line in the makefile, but I show it split
> here for the benefit of some mail systems.
>
> Obviously after you change these parameters you should build and install a new
> kernal.

And after making config you have to reedit the makefile, isn't it
wiser to put the definitions in the configuration file ?
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