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Re: Where's the right place to document sysctl's for ogle?



* Peter Valchev <pvalchev@sightly.net> [030204 11:41]:
> > 	When using GENERIC, you need to crank the sysctl's for shared
> > memory when playing certain DVD's, or ogle fails to allocate a shm, and
> > dumps core. Where should I document this? since there isn't really a man
> > page for the silly thing.
> 
> It is already documented in DESCR, i.e. you should be able to see it
> with `pkg_info ogle`.  If you have better ideas...

Wouldn't MESSAGE be better?  Or at least in this case a pointer in
MESSAGE to take a look at pkg_info for performance tuning info.  For
instance in devel/jdk/1.4-linux:

hermes:1.4-linux {129} cat pkg/MESSAGE
==============================================================
In order to invoke the JVM, the data segment size by your
'limit' builtin must be at least 262144.
Please refer to your shell's manual page for details.
==============================================================

David