freebsd stable - Mar 2006 - How do I change kern.ipc.shmmax in FreeBSD 5.x automatically after reboot?

Hello,

I have the following entries in /boot/loader.conf:

  kern.ipc.shm_use_phys="1"
  kern.ipc.semmns="500"
  kern.ipc.semmni="40"
  kern.ipc.semmap="500"

which are set correctly. Unfortunately, the following
two entries

  kern.ipc.shmmax="512000000"
  kern.ipc.shmall="65526"

do not change the corresponding values according
to sysctl, no matter whether I put them in 
/boot/loader.conf or /etc/sysctl.conf.

Changing them by hand (as root with 'sysctl') afterwards
however _does_ work, so I have (for now) put
those two settings in a little script
(/usr/local/etc/rc.d/000_sysctl.sh)

Has this behaviour changed for 6.x?
Anyone who could explain this behaviour?

Regards,
Holger

On Mar 22, 2006, at 6:01 AM, Kipp Holger wrote:
> which are set correctly. Unfortunately, the following
> two entries
>
>   kern.ipc.shmmax="512000000"
>   kern.ipc.shmall="65526"
>
> do not change the corresponding values according
> to sysctl, no matter whether I put them in
> /boot/loader.conf or /etc/sysctl.conf.
Here is how I bump up values to run a large-ish postgresql server  
under 6.0-p4:

in /boot/loader.conf I have

kern.ipc.semmni=32
kern.ipc.semmns=512


and in /etc/sysctl.conf I have

# tuning for PostgreSQL
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1
kern.ipc.shmmax=1073741824
kern.ipc.shmall=262144
kern.ipc.semmsl=512
kern.ipc.semmap=256


and it works just fine.  IIRC it worked the same in 5.4.