Remove contractions. Minor grammatical cleanup.

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Ceri Davies 2003-01-31 16:59:51 +00:00
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largest swap partition. Keeping the swap partitions near the
same size will allow the kernel to optimally stripe swap space
across disks.
Large swap sizes are fine, regardless if it's not
Large swap sizes are fine, even if swap is not
used much. It might be easier to recover
from a runaway program before being forced to reboot.</para>
</sect3>
@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ exit 0
the above sample script to be picked up and run at the proper time during
system startup, you should save it to a file called
<filename>FooBar.sh</filename> in
<filename>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</filename> and make sure it's
<filename>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</filename> and make sure it is
executable. You can make a shell script executable with &man.chmod.1;
as shown below:</para>
@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ ifconfig_dc1="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP"</programlis
you have to try two things. First, ping the interface itself,
and then ping another machine on the LAN.</para>
<para>First let's test the interface:</para>
<para>First test the local interface:</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>ping -c5 192.168.1.3</userinput>
PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3): 56 data bytes
@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.700/0.729/0.766/0.025 ms</screen>
fortunately quite simple. For a given interface, there must be
one address which correctly represents the network's netmask.
Any other addresses which fall within this network must have a
netmask of all 1's.</para>
netmask of all <literal>1</literal>s.</para>
<para>For example, consider the case where the
<devicename>fxp0</devicename> interface is
@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ kern.maxfiles: 2088 -> 5000</screen>
<varname>vm.swap_idle_threshold2</varname> allows you to depress
the priority of memory pages associated with idle processes more
quickly then the normal pageout algorithm. This gives a helping
hand to the pageout daemon. do not turn this option on unless
hand to the pageout daemon. Do not turn this option on unless
you need it, because the tradeoff you are making is essentially
pre-page memory sooner rather than later; thus eating more swap
and disk bandwidth. In a small system this option will have a
@ -1398,8 +1398,8 @@ kern.maxfiles: 2088 -> 5000</screen>
works (especially with modern drives). Newer versions of FreeBSD
(5.0+) should use the <varname>kern.cam.scsi_delay</varname>
boot time tunable. The tunable, and kernel config option accept
values in terms of <emphasis>milliseconds</emphasis> and NOT
<emphasis>seconds</emphasis></para>
values in terms of <emphasis>milliseconds</emphasis> and <emphasis>not</emphasis>
<emphasis>seconds</emphasis>.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@ -1648,7 +1648,7 @@ kern.maxfiles: 2088 -> 5000</screen>
(e.g. &man.sendmail.8;, or <application>Apache</application>) but
will often have a directive in it's configuration file to adjust
the queue size. Large listen queues also do a better job of
avoiding Denial of Service <abbrev>DoS</abbrev> attacks.</para>
avoiding Denial of Service (<abbrev>DoS</abbrev>) attacks.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@ -1713,7 +1713,7 @@ kern.maxfiles: 2088 -> 5000</screen>
consider firewall effects when changing the port range. Some
firewalls may block large ranges of ports (usually low-numbered
ports) and expect systems to use higher ranges of ports for
outgoing connections -- for this reason it is recommended that
outgoing connections &mdash; for this reason it is recommended that
<varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.first</varname> be lowered.</para>
</sect3>
@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ kern.maxfiles: 2088 -> 5000</screen>
<varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight_debug</varname> to
<literal>0</literal> (disable debugging), and for production use
setting <varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight_min</varname> to at least
<literal>6144</literal> may be beneficial. Note however, that
<literal>6144</literal> may be beneficial. However, note that
setting high minimums may effectively disable bandwidth limiting
depending on the link. The limiting feature reduces the amount of
data built up in intermediate route and switch packet queues as
@ -1772,8 +1772,8 @@ kern.maxfiles: 2088 -> 5000</screen>
<sect1 id="adding-swap-space">
<title>Adding Swap Space</title>
<para>No matter how well you plan, sometimes a system doesn't run
as you expect. If you find you need more swap space, it's
<para>No matter how well you plan, sometimes a system does not run
as you expect. If you find you need more swap space, it is
simple enough to add. You have three ways to increase swap
space: adding a new hard drive, enabling swap over NFS, and
creating a swap file on an existing partition.</para>