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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 21 2024 $
.Dt SYSCTL 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sysctl
.Nd get or set system information
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/sysctl.h
.Ft int
.Fn sysctl "const int *name" "u_int namelen" "void *oldp" "size_t *oldlenp" "void *newp" "size_t newlen"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn sysctl
function retrieves system information and allows processes with
appropriate privileges to set system information.
The information available from
.Fn sysctl
consists of integers, strings, and tables.
Information may be retrieved and set using the
.Xr sysctl 8
utility;
the variable names used by this utility are given here in parentheses.
.Pp
Unless explicitly noted below,
.Fn sysctl
returns a consistent snapshot of the data requested.
Consistency is obtained by locking the destination
buffer into memory so that the data may be copied out without blocking.
Calls to
.Fn sysctl
are serialized to avoid deadlock.
.Pp
The state is described using a
.Dq Management Information Base (MIB)
style name, listed in
.Fa name ,
which is a
.Fa namelen
length array of integers.
.Pp
The information is copied into the buffer specified by
.Fa oldp .
The size of the buffer is given by the location specified by
.Fa oldlenp
before the call,
and that location gives the amount of data copied after a successful call.
If the amount of data available is greater
than the size of the buffer supplied,
the call supplies as much data as fits in the buffer provided
and returns with the error code
.Er ENOMEM .
If the old value is not desired,
.Fa oldp
and
.Fa oldlenp
should be set to
.Dv NULL .
.Pp
The size of the available data can be determined by calling
.Fn sysctl
with a
.Dv NULL
parameter for
.Fa oldp .
The size of the available data will be returned in the location pointed to by
.Fa oldlenp .
For some operations, the amount of space may change often.
For these operations,
the system attempts to round up so that the returned size is
large enough for a call to return the data shortly thereafter.
.Pp
The terminating NUL character is included in the lengths of string values.
.Pp
To set a new value,
.Fa newp
is set to point to a buffer of length
.Fa newlen
from which the requested value is to be taken.
If a new value is not to be set,
.Fa newp
should be set to
.Dv NULL
and
.Fa newlen
set to 0.
.Pp
The top level names are defined with a
.Dv CTL_
prefix in
.In sys/sysctl.h ,
and are as follows.
The next and subsequent levels down are found in the include files
listed here, and described in separate sections below.
.Bl -column "CTL_MACHDEP" "ufs/ffs/ffs_extern.h" "Description" -offset indent
.It Sy "Name" Ta Sy "Next level names" Ta Sy "Description"
.It Dv CTL_DDB Ta "ddb/db_var.h" Ta "Kernel debugger"
.It Dv CTL_DEBUG Ta "sys/sysctl.h" Ta "Debugging"
.It Dv CTL_FS Ta "sys/sysctl.h" Ta "File system"
.It Dv CTL_HW Ta "sys/sysctl.h" Ta "Generic CPU, I/O"
.It Dv CTL_KERN Ta "sys/sysctl.h" Ta "High kernel limits"
.It Dv CTL_MACHDEP Ta "sys/sysctl.h" Ta "Machine dependent"
.It Dv CTL_NET Ta "sys/socket.h" Ta "Networking"
.It Dv CTL_VFS Ta "ufs/ffs/ffs_extern.h" Ta "Virtual file system"
.It Dv CTL_VM Ta "uvm/uvmexp.h" Ta "Virtual memory"
.El
.Pp
For example, the following retrieves the maximum number of processes allowed
in the system:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
int mib[2], maxproc;
size_t len;

mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
mib[1] = KERN_MAXPROC;
len = sizeof(maxproc);
if (sysctl(mib, 2, &maxproc, &len, NULL, 0) == -1)
	err(1, "sysctl");
.Ed
.Ss CTL_DDB
Integer information and settable variables are available for the
.Dv CTL_DDB level ,
as described below.
More information is also available in
.Xr ddb 4 .
.Bl -column "Second level name" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv DBCTL_CONSOLE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv DBCTL_LOG Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv DBCTL_MAXLINE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv DBCTL_MAXWIDTH Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv DBCTL_PANIC Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv DBCTL_RADIX Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv DBCTL_TABSTOP Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv DBCTL_TRIGGER Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv DBCTL_CONSOLE Pq Va ddb.console
When this variable is set, an architecture dependent magic key sequence
on the console or a debugger button will permit entry into the kernel debugger.
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be raised.
.It Dv DBCTL_LOG Pq Va ddb.log
When set, ddb output is also logged in the kernel message buffer.
.It Dv DBCTL_MAXLINE Pq Va ddb.max_line
Determines the number of lines to page in
.Xr ddb 4 .
This variable is also available as the ddb
.Dv $lines
variable.
.It Dv DBCTL_MAXWIDTH Pq Va ddb.max_width
Determines the maximum width of a line in
.Xr ddb 4 .
This variable is also available as the ddb
.Dv $maxwidth
variable.
.It Dv DBCTL_PANIC Pq Va ddb.panic
When this variable is set, system panics may drop into the kernel debugger.
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be raised.
.It Dv DBCTL_RADIX Pq Va ddb.radix
Determines the default radix or base for non-prefixed numbers
entered into
.Xr ddb 4 .
This variable is also available as the ddb
.Dv $radix
variable.
.It Dv DBCTL_TABSTOP Pq Va ddb.tab_stop_width
Width of a tab stop in
.Xr ddb 4 .
This variable is also available as the ddb
.Dv $tabstops
variable.
.It Dv DBCTL_TRIGGER Pq Va ddb.trigger
When
.Dv DBCTL_CONSOLE
is set,
writing to
.Dv DBCTL_TRIGGER
causes the system to enter
.Xr ddb 4 .
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
the process writing to this variable must be running
on the console in order to enter
.Xr ddb 4 .
.El
.Ss CTL_DEBUG
The debugging variables vary from system to system.
A debugging variable may be added or deleted without need to recompile
.Fn sysctl
to know about it.
Each time it runs,
.Fn sysctl
gets the list of debugging variables from the kernel and
displays their current values.
The system defines twenty
.Vt struct ctldebug
variables named
.Va debug0
through
.Va debug19 .
They are declared as separate variables so that they can be
individually initialized at the location of their associated variable.
The loader prevents multiple use of the same variable by issuing errors
if a variable is initialized in more than one place.
For example, to export the variable
.Va dospecialcheck
as a debugging variable, the following declaration would be used:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
int dospecialcheck = 1;
struct ctldebug debug5 = { "dospecialcheck", &dospecialcheck };
.Ed
.Ss CTL_FS
The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_FS
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level name" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv FS_POSIX_SETUID Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv FS_POSIX_SETUID Pq Va fs.posix.setuid
When this variable is set, ownership changes on a file will cause
the
.Va S_ISUID
and
.Va S_ISGID
bits to be cleared.
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be changed.
.El
.Ss CTL_HW
The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_HW
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level name" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv HW_ALLOWPOWERDOWN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv HW_BATTERY Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv HW_BYTEORDER Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_CPUSPEED Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_DISKCOUNT Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_DISKNAMES Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_DISKSTATS Ta "struct" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_MACHINE Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_MODEL Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_NCPU Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_NCPUFOUND Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_NCPUONLINE Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_PAGESIZE Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_PERFPOLICY Ta "string" Ta "yes"
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM64 Ta "int64_t" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_POWER Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_PRODUCT Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_SENSORS Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv HW_SETPERF Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv HW_SMT Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv HW_UCOMNAMES Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_USERMEM Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_USERMEM64 Ta "int64_t" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_UUID Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_VENDOR Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv HW_VERSION Ta "string" Ta "no"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv HW_ALLOWPOWERDOWN Pq Va hw.allowpowerdown
Some machines generate an interrupt when the power button is pressed
and a driver can catch that interrupt.
When this variable is set, such an event will cause the system to
perform a regular shutdown and power off the machine.
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be changed.
.It Dv HW_BATTERY Pq Va hw.battery
Control battery charging.
These are only available on hardware that supports battery charging control.
There are three subnodes:
.Bl -column "HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTART" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGEMODE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTART Ta "integer" Ta "maybe"
.It Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTOP Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Pp
Their meanings are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGEMODE Pq Va hw.battery.chargemode
Control if the battery is charged or discharged.
A value of -1 means to (forcibly) discharge the battery.
A value of 0 means to inhibit charging the battery.
A value of 1 means to charge the battery, subject to the configured limits.
.It Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTART Pq Va hw.battery.chargestart
The percentage below which the battery will start charging.
Not all hardware allows setting this value.
On hardware that does not allow setting this value the battery will typically
start charging at a fixed percentage point below the value configured through
.Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTOP .
.It Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTOP Pq Va hw.battery.chargestop
The percentage above which the battery will stop charging.
Setting the value to 100 will fully charge the battery.
.El
.Pp
By setting
.Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGEMODE
to 1, and setting both
.Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTART
and
.Dv HW_BATTERY_CHARGESTOP ,
the battery will be kept charged at a percentage between the configured limits.
.It Dv HW_BYTEORDER Pq Va hw.byteorder
The byteorder (4321 or 1234).
.It Dv HW_CPUSPEED Pq Va hw.cpuspeed
The current CPU frequency
.Pq in MHz .
.It Dv HW_DISKCOUNT Pq Va hw.diskcount
The number of disks currently attached to the system.
.It Dv HW_DISKNAMES Pq Va hw.disknames
A comma-separated list of disk names.
.It Dv HW_DISKSTATS Pq Va hw.diskstats
An array of
.Vt struct diskstats
structures containing disk statistics.
.It Dv HW_MACHINE Pq Va hw.machine
The kernel architecture as returned by
.Xr uname 1
.Fl m
and by
.Xr machine 1 .
.It Dv HW_MODEL Pq Va hw.model
The machine model.
.It Dv HW_NCPU Pq Va hw.ncpu
The number of CPUs configured.
.It Dv HW_NCPUFOUND Pq Va hw.ncpufound
The number of CPUs found.
.It Dv HW_NCPUONLINE Pq Va hw.ncpuonline
The number of CPUs online.
.It Dv HW_PAGESIZE Pq Va hw.pagesize
The software page size.
.It Dv HW_PERFPOLICY Pq Va hw.perfpolicy
The performance policy for power management.
Can be one of
.Dq manual ,
.Dq auto ,
or
.Dq high .
If the policy contains a comma, the second part specifies an alternative
policy used while the system is running on battery.
The default setting is
.Dq high,auto .
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM
The total physical memory, in bytes.
This variable is deprecated; use
.Dv HW_PHYSMEM64
instead.
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM64 Pq Va hw.physmem
The total physical memory, in bytes.
.It Dv HW_POWER Pq Va hw.power
Machine has wall-power.
.It Dv HW_PRODUCT Pq Va hw.product
The product name of the machine.
.It Dv HW_SENSORS Pq Va hw.sensors
Third level comprises an array of
.Vt struct sensordev
structures containing information about devices
that may attach hardware monitoring sensors.
.Pp
Third, fourth and fifth levels together comprise an array of
.Vt struct sensor
structures containing snapshot readings of hardware monitoring sensors.
In such usage, third level indicates the numerical representation
of the sensor device name to which the sensor is attached
(a device's xname and number are matched with the help of
.Vt struct sensordev
structure above),
fourth level indicates sensor type and
fifth level is an ordinal sensor number (unique to
the specified sensor type on the specified sensor device).
.Pp
The
.Sy sensordev
and
.Sy sensor
structures
and
.Sy sensor_type
enumeration
are defined in
.In sys/sensors.h .
.It Dv HW_SERIALNO Pq Va hw.serialno
The serial number of the machine.
.It Dv HW_SETPERF Pq Va hw.setperf
Current CPU performance
.Pq percentage .
It is only modifiable if
.Dv HW_PERFPOLICY
is set to
.Dq manual .
.It Dv HW_SMT Pq Va hw.smt
If set to 1, enable simultaneous multithreading (SMT) on CPUs that
support it.
Disabled by default.
.It Dv HW_UCOMNAMES Pq Va hw.ucomnames
A comma-separated list of currently attached
.Xr ucom 4
devices in the following format:
.Pp
.Sm off
.D1 Sy ucom Ar N : Sy usb Ar bus.rootport.route.interface
.Sm on
.Pp
The
.Ar route
consists of five hexadecimal digits identifying the path from
the root port to the port containing the
.Ar interface .
.It Dv HW_USERMEM
The amount of available non-kernel memory in bytes.
This variable is deprecated; use
.Dv HW_USERMEM64
instead.
.It Dv HW_USERMEM64 Pq Va hw.usermem
The amount of available non-kernel memory in bytes.
.It Dv HW_UUID Pq Va hw.uuid
The universal unique identification number assigned to the machine.
.It Dv HW_VENDOR Pq Va hw.vendor
The vendor name for this machine.
.It Dv HW_VERSION Pq Va hw.version
The version or revision of this machine.
.El
.Ss CTL_KERN
The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_KERN
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
The types of data currently available are process information,
system vnodes, the open file entries, routing table entries,
virtual memory statistics, load average history, and clock rate
information.
.Bl -column "KERN_PROC_NOBROADCASTKILL" "u_int64_t[CPUSTATES]" "no" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_ALLOWDT Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_ALLOWKMEM Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_ARGMAX Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_AUDIO Ta "node" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_BOOTTIME Ta "struct timeval" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_CACHEPCT Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_CCPU Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_CLOCKRATE Ta "struct clockinfo" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_CONSDEV Ta "dev_t" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_CPTIME Ta "long[CPUSTATES]" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_CPTIME2 Ta "u_int64_t[CPUSTATES]" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_CPUSTATS Ta "struct cpustats" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_DOMAINNAME Ta "string" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_FILE Ta "struct kinfo_file" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_FORKSTAT Ta "struct forkstat" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_FSCALE Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_FSYNC Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_GLOBAL_PTRACE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_HOSTID Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_HOSTNAME Ta "string" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_INTRCNT Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_JOB_CONTROL Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_MALLOCSTATS Ta "node" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_MAXCLUSTERS Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_MAXFILES Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_MAXLOCKSPERUID Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_MAXPARTITIONS Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_MAXPROC Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_MAXTHREAD Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_MAXVNODES Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_MBSTAT Ta "struct mbstat" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_MSGBUF Ta "char[]" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_MSGBUFSIZE Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_NCHSTATS Ta "struct nchstats" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_NFILES Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_NGROUPS Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_NOSUIDCOREDUMP Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_NPROCS Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_NTHREADS Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_NUMVNODES Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_OSRELEASE Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_OSREV Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_OSTYPE Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_OSVERSION Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_PFSTATUS Ta "struct pf_status" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_POOL_DEBUG Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_POSIX1 Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_PROC Ta "struct kinfo_proc" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_ARGS Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_CWD Ta "string" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_NOBROADCASTKILL Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_VMMAP Ta "struct kinfo_vmentry" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_PROF Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_RAWPARTITION Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_SAVED_IDS Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_SECURELVL Ta "integer" Ta "raise only"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_SOMAXCONN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SOMINCONN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SPLASSERT Ta "int" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_STACKGAPRANDOM Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_INFO Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVMSG Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVSEM Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVSHM Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_TTY Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_TTYCOUNT Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_UTC_OFFSET Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_VERSION Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_VIDEO Ta "node" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_WATCHDOG Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_WITNESS Ta "node" Ta "not applicable"
.It Dv KERN_WXABORT Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_ALLOWDT Pq Va kern.allowdt
Allow userland processes access to
.Pa /dev/dt .
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be changed.
.It Dv KERN_ALLOWKMEM Pq Va kern.allowkmem
Allow userland processes access to
.Pa /dev/mem
and
.Pa /dev/kmem .
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be changed.
.It Dv KERN_ARGMAX Pq Va kern.argmax
The maximum number of bytes allowed among the arguments to
.Xr execve 2 .
.It Dv KERN_AUDIO Pq Va kern.audio
Control device-independent aspects of the
.Xr audio 4
subsystem.
Currently, there is one subnode:
.Bl -column "KERN_AUDIO_RECORD" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_AUDIO_RECORD Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Pp
Its meaning is as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_AUDIO_RECORD Pq Va kern.audio.record
If set to the default value of 0, recording is muted by default
for all audio devices.
Otherwise, audio recording is enabled by default.
For individual devices, this setting can be overridden with the
.Xr mixerctl 8
.Va record.enable
variable.
.El
.It Dv KERN_BOOTTIME Pq Va kern.boottime
A
.Vt struct timeval
structure is returned.
This structure contains the time that the system was booted.
.It Dv KERN_CACHEPCT Pq Va kern.bufcachepercent
The maximum percentage of DMA-reachable physical memory
the buffer cache may use.
.It Dv KERN_CCPU Pq Va kern.ccpu
The scheduler exponential decay value.
.It Dv KERN_CLOCKRATE Pq Va kern.clockrate
A
.Vt struct clockinfo
structure is returned.
This structure contains the hard clock, statistics clock and profiling clock
frequencies, and the number of microseconds per hard clock tick.
.It Dv KERN_CONSDEV Pq Va kern.consdev
The console device.
.It Dv KERN_CPTIME Pq Va kern.cp_time
An array of longs of size
.Dv CPUSTATES
is returned, containing statistics about the number of ticks spent by
the system in interrupt processing, user processes
.Po
.Xr nice 1
or normal
.Pc ,
system processing, lock spinning, or idling.
.It Dv KERN_CPTIME2 Pq Va kern.cp_time2
Similar to
.Dv KERN_CPTIME ,
but obtains information from only the single CPU specified by the
third level name given.
.It Dv KERN_CPUSTATS
A
.Vt struct cpustats
structure is returned.
This structure contains the array described in
.Dv KERN_CPTIME2
and a bit mask indicating the status of the CPU specified by the
third level name.
.It Dv KERN_DOMAINNAME Pq Va kern.domainname
Get or set the YP domain name like with
.Xr getdomainname 3 ,
.Xr setdomainname 3 ,
and
.Xr domainname 1 .
.It Dv KERN_FILE Pq Va kern.file
Return the entire file table, or a subset of it.
An array of
.Vt struct kinfo_file
structures is returned,
whose size depends on the current number of selected files in the system.
The third and fourth level names are as follows:
.Bl -column "Third level name" "Fourth level is:" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Fourth level is:"
.It Dv KERN_FILE_BYFILE Ta "A file type"
.It Dv KERN_FILE_BYPID Ta "A process ID"
.It Dv KERN_FILE_BYUID Ta "A user ID"
.El
.Pp
The fifth level name is the size of the
.Vt struct kinfo_file
and the sixth level name is the number of structures to return.
.It Dv KERN_FORKSTAT Pq Va kern.forkstat
A
.Vt struct forkstat
structure is returned.
This structure contains information about the number of
.Xr fork 2 ,
.Xr vfork 2 ,
and
.Xr __tfork 3
system calls as well as kernel thread creations since system startup,
and the number of pages of virtual memory involved in each.
.It Dv KERN_FSCALE Pq Va kern.fscale
The kernel fixed-point scale factor.
.It Dv KERN_FSYNC Pq Va kern.fsync
Return 1 if the File Synchronisation Option is available on this system,
otherwise 0.
.It Dv KERN_GLOBAL_PTRACE Pq Va kern.global_ptrace
When set to 1, permit
.Xr ptrace 2
to attach to any process with the appropriate privileges.
When set to 0, processes may only attach to their own descendants.
.It Dv KERN_HOSTID Pq Va kern.hostid
Get or set the host ID.
.It Dv KERN_HOSTNAME Pq Va kern.hostname
Get or set the hostname like with
.Xr gethostname 3 ,
.Xr sethostname 3 ,
and
.Xr hostname 1 .
.It Dv KERN_JOB_CONTROL Pq Va kern.job_control
Return 1 if job control is available on this system, otherwise 0.
.It Dv KERN_MALLOCSTATS Pq Va kern.malloc
Return kernel memory bucket statistics.
The third level names are detailed below.
There are no changeable values in this branch.
.Bl -column "KERN_MALLOC_KMEMNAMES" "string" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type"
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_BUCKET Ta "node"
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_BUCKETS Ta "string"
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_KMEMNAMES Ta "string"
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_KMEMSTATS Ta "node"
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.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_BUCKET.<size> Pq Va kern.malloc.bucket
A node containing the statistics for the memory bucket of the
specified size (in decimal notation, the number of bytes per bucket
element, e.g., 16, 32, 128).
Each node returns a
.Vt struct kmembuckets .
.Pp
If a value is specified that does not correspond directly to a
bucket size, the statistics for the closest larger bucket size will be
returned instead.
.Pp
Note that bucket sizes are typically powers of 2.
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_BUCKETS Pq Va kern.malloc.buckets
Return a comma-separated list of the bucket sizes used by the kernel.
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_KMEMNAMES Pq Va kern.malloc.kmemnames
Return a comma-separated list of the names of the kernel
.Xr malloc 9
types.
.It Dv KERN_MALLOC_KMEMSTATS Pq Va kern.malloc.kmemstat
A node containing the statistics for the memory types of the specified
name.
Each node returns a
.Vt struct kmemstats .
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.It Dv KERN_MAXCLUSTERS Pq Va kern.maxclusters
The maximum number of
.Xr mbuf 9
clusters that may be allocated.
.It Dv KERN_MAXFILES Pq Va kern.maxfiles
The maximum number of open files that may be open in the system.
.It Dv KERN_MAXLOCKSPERUID Pq Va kern.maxlocksperuid
The maximum number of file locks per user;
the default is 1024.
.It Dv KERN_MAXPARTITIONS Pq Va kern.maxpartitions
The maximum number of partitions allowed per disk.
.It Dv KERN_MAXPROC Pq Va kern.maxproc
The maximum number of simultaneous processes the system will allow.
.It Dv KERN_MAXTHREAD Pq Va kern.maxthread
The maximum number of simultaneous threads the system will allow.
.It Dv KERN_MAXVNODES Pq Va kern.maxvnodes
The maximum number of vnodes available on the system.
.It Dv KERN_MBSTAT Pq Va kern.mbstat
A
.Vt struct mbstat
structure is returned, containing statistics on
.Xr mbuf 9
usage.
.It Dv KERN_MSGBUF Pq Va kern.msgbuf
Returns a buffer containing kernel log messages;
see
.Xr dmesg 8 .
.It Dv KERN_MSGBUFSIZE Pq Va kern.msgbufsize
The size of the kernel message buffer.
.It Dv KERN_NCHSTATS Pq Va kern.nchstats
A
.Vt struct nchstats
structure is returned.
This structure contains information about the
filename to
.Xr inode 5
mapping cache.
.It Dv KERN_NFILES Pq Va kern.nfiles
Number of open files.
.It Dv KERN_NGROUPS Pq Va kern.ngroups
The maximum number of supplemental groups.
.It Dv KERN_NOSUIDCOREDUMP Pq Va kern.nosuidcoredump
Whether a process may dump core after changing user or group ID:
.Bl -column "value" "condition" "current directory"
.It Sy "value" Ta Sy "condition" Ta Sy "dump core to"
.It 0 Ta "euid == 0" Ta "current directory"
.It 1 Ta "never" Ta ""
.It 2 Ta "always" Ta Pa "/var/crash"
.It 3 Ta "depends" Ta Pa "/var/crash/$programname/"
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.It Dv KERN_NPROCS Pq Va kern.nprocs
The number of entries in the kernel process table.
.It Dv KERN_NTHREADS Pq Va kern.nthreads
The number of entries in the kernel thread table.
.It Dv KERN_NUMVNODES Pq Va kern.numvnodes
Number of vnodes in use.
.It Dv KERN_OSRELEASE Pq Va kern.osrelease
The system release string as returned by
.Xr uname 1
.Fl r .
.It Dv KERN_OSREV Pq Va kern.osrevision
The system revision number.
.It Dv KERN_OSTYPE Pq Va kern.ostype
The system type string as returned by
.Xr uname 1
.Fl s ;
it is always
.Dq Ox .
.It Dv KERN_OSVERSION Pq Va kern.osversion
The kernel build version as returned by
.Xr uname 1
.Fl v .
.It Dv KERN_PFSTATUS
The
.Vt struct pf_status
structure.
.It Dv KERN_POOL_DEBUG Pq Va kern.pool_debug
Modify the memory pool debug level.
Valid values are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset indent -compact
.It 0
Disable pool debugging.
.It 1
Enable use after free detection.
.It 2
In addition to 1, when calling either
.Xr malloc 9
or
.Xr pool_get 9
with flags indicating that sleeping is allowed then always yield.
Useful to detect potential races.
.El
.It Dv KERN_POSIX1 Pq Va kern.posix1version
The version of ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX 1003.1) with which the system
attempts to comply.
.It Dv KERN_PROC Pq Va kern.proc
Return the entire process table, or a subset of it.
An array of
.Vt struct kinfo_proc
structures is returned,
whose size depends on the current number of selected processes in the system.
The third and fourth level names are as follows:
.Bl -column "KERN_PROC_SESSION" "Fourth level is:" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Fourth level is:"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_ALL Ta "None"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_KTHREAD Ta "A kernel thread"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_PID Ta "A process ID"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_PGRP Ta "A process group"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_RUID Ta "A real user ID"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_SESSION Ta "A session PID"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_TTY Ta "A tty device"
.It Dv KERN_PROC_UID Ta "A user ID"
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.Pp
The fifth level name is the size of the
.Vt struct kinfo_proc
and the sixth level name is the number of structures to return.
.It Dv KERN_PROC_ARGS Pq Va kern.procargs
Returns the arguments or environment of a process.
The third level name is the PID of the process.
The fourth level name is one of:
.Bl -column KERN_PROC_NARGV -offset indent
.It Dv KERN_PROC_ARGV
.It Dv KERN_PROC_ENV
.It Dv KERN_PROC_NARGV
.It Dv KERN_PROC_NENV
.El
.Pp
.Dv KERN_PROC_NARGV
and
.Dv KERN_PROC_NENV
return the number of elements as an
.Vt int
in the argv or env array.
.Dv KERN_PROC_ARGV
returns the argv array and
.Dv KERN_PROC_ENV
returns the environ array.
The buffer pointed to by
.Fa oldp
is filled with an array of char pointers
followed by the strings themselves.
The last char pointer is a
.Dv NULL
pointer.
.It Dv KERN_PROC_CWD Pq Va kern.proc_cwd
Return the current working directory of a process.
The third level name is the target process ID.
A NUL-terminated string is returned.
.It Dv KERN_PROC_NOBROADCASTKILL Pq Va kern.proc_nobroadcastkill
When set, a process will no longer be signaled when sending broadcast signals.
The third level name is the target process ID.
.It Dv KERN_PROC_VMMAP Pq Va kern.proc_vmmap
Return the entire process VM map entries.
An array of
.Vt struct kinfo_vmentry
structures is returned,
whose size depends on the current number of VM map entries
of the selected process.
Iteration is possible by setting the base address in the first element of
.Vt struct kinfo_vmentry .
.It Dv KERN_PROF Pq Va kern.profiling
Return profiling information about the kernel.
If the kernel is not compiled for profiling,
attempts to retrieve any of the
.Dv KERN_PROF
values will fail with
.Er EOPNOTSUPP .
The third level names for the string and integer profiling information
are detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Third level name" "struct gmonparam" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv GPROF_COUNT Ta "u_short[]" Ta "yes"
.It Dv GPROF_FROMS Ta "u_short[]" Ta "yes"
.It Dv GPROF_GMONPARAM Ta "struct gmonparam" Ta "no"
.It Dv GPROF_STATE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv GPROF_TOS Ta "struct tostruct" Ta "yes"
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.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv GPROF_COUNT
Array of statistical program counter counts.
.It Dv GPROF_FROMS
Array indexed by program counter of call-from points.
.It Dv GPROF_GMONPARAM
Structure giving the sizes of the above arrays.
.It Dv GPROF_STATE
Returns
.Dv GMON_PROF_ON
or
.Dv GMON_PROF_OFF
to show that profiling is running or stopped.
.It Dv GPROF_TOS
Array of
.Vt struct tostruct
describing destination of calls and their counts.
.El
.It Dv KERN_RAWPARTITION Pq Va kern.rawpartition
The raw partition of a disk (a == 0).
.It Dv KERN_SAVED_IDS Pq Va kern.saved_ids
Returns 1 if saved set-group-ID and saved set-user-ID are available.
.It Dv KERN_SECURELVL Pq Va kern.securelevel
The system security level.
This level may be raised by processes with appropriate privileges.
It may only be lowered by process 1.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO Pq Va kern.seminfo
Return the elements of
.Vt struct seminfo .
If the kernel is not compiled with System V style semaphore support,
attempts to retrieve any of the
.Dv KERN_SEMINFO
values will fail with
.Er EOPNOTSUPP .
The third level names for the elements of
.Vt struct seminfo
are detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMNI" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMAEM Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMNI Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMNS Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMNU Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMSL Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMOPM Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMUME Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMUSZ Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMVMX Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMAEM Pq Va kern.seminfo.semaem
The adjust on exit maximum value.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMNI Pq Va kern.seminfo.semmni
The maximum number of semaphore identifiers allowed.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMNS Pq Va kern.seminfo.semmns
The maximum number of semaphores allowed in the system.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMNU Pq Va kern.seminfo.semmnu
The maximum number of semaphore undo structures allowed in the system.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMMSL Pq Va kern.seminfo.semmsl
The maximum number of semaphores allowed per ID.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMOPM Pq Va kern.seminfo.semopm
The maximum number of operations per
.Xr semop 2
call.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMUME Pq Va kern.seminfo.semume
The maximum number of undo entries per process.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMUSZ Pq Va kern.seminfo.semusz
The size (in bytes) of the undo structure.
.It Dv KERN_SEMINFO_SEMVMX Pq Va kern.seminfo.semvmx
The semaphore maximum value.
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.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO Pq Va kern.shminfo
Return the elements of
.Vt struct shminfo .
If the kernel is not compiled with System V style shared memory support,
attempts to retrieve any of the
.Dv KERN_SHMINFO
values will fail with
.Er EOPNOTSUPP .
The third level names for the elements of
.Vt struct shminfo
are detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "KERN_SHMINFO_SHMMAX" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMALL Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMMAX Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMMIN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMMNI Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMSEG Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
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.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMALL Pq Va kern.shminfo.shmall
The maximum amount of total shared memory allowed in the system (in pages).
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMMAX Pq Va kern.shminfo.shmmax
The maximum shared memory segment size (in bytes).
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMMIN Pq Va kern.shminfo.shmmin
The minimum shared memory segment size (in bytes).
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMMNI Pq Va kern.shminfo.shmmni
The maximum number of shared memory identifiers in the system.
.It Dv KERN_SHMINFO_SHMSEG Pq Va kern.shminfo.shmseg
The maximum number of shared memory segments per process.
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.It Dv KERN_SOMAXCONN Pq Va kern.somaxconn
Upper bound on the number of half-open connections a process can allow
to be associated with a socket, using
.Xr listen 2 .
The default value is 128.
.It Dv KERN_SOMINCONN Pq Va kern.sominconn
Lower bound on the number of half-open connections a process can allow
to be associated with a socket, using
.Xr listen 2 .
The default value is 80.
.It Dv KERN_SPLASSERT Pq Va kern.splassert
Modify the system interrupt priority level.
Valid values are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset indent -compact
.It 0
Disable error checking.
.It 1
Print a message if an error is detected.
.It 2
Print a message if an error is detected,
and a stack trace if possible.
.It 3
The same as 2, but also drop into the kernel debugger.
.El
.Pp
Any other value causes a system panic on errors.
See
.Xr splassert 9
for more information.
.It Dv KERN_STACKGAPRANDOM Pq Va kern.stackgap_random
Sets the range of the random value added to the stack pointer on each
program execution.
The random value is added to make buffer overflow exploitation slightly
harder.
The bigger the number, the harder it is to brute force this added protection,
but it also means bigger waste of memory.
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_INFO Pq Va kern.sysvipc_info
Return System V style IPC configuration and run-time information.
The third level name selects the System V style IPC facility.
.Bl -column "KERN_SYSVIPC_MSG_INFO" "struct shm_sysctl_info" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_MSG_INFO Ta "struct msg_sysctl_info"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_SEM_INFO Ta "struct sem_sysctl_info"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_SHM_INFO Ta "struct shm_sysctl_info"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_MSG_INFO
Return information on the System V style message facility.
The
.Sy msg_sysctl_info
structure is defined in
.In sys/msg.h .
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_SEM_INFO
Return information on the System V style semaphore facility.
The
.Sy sem_sysctl_info
structure is defined in
.In sys/sem.h .
.It Dv KERN_SYSVIPC_SHM_INFO
Return information on the System V style shared memory facility.
The
.Sy shm_sysctl_info
structure is defined in
.In sys/shm.h .
.El
.It Dv KERN_SYSVMSG Pq Va kern.sysvmsg
Returns 1 if System V style message queue functionality is available on this
system, otherwise 0.
.It Dv KERN_SYSVSEM Pq Va kern.sysvem
Returns 1 if System V style semaphore functionality is available on this
system, otherwise 0.
.It Dv KERN_SYSVSHM Pq Va kern.sysvshm
Returns 1 if System V style shared memory functionality is available on this
system, otherwise 0.
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER Pq Va kern.timecounter
Return statistics information about the kernel time counter.
The third level names information is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "KERN_TIMECOUNTER_TIMESTEPWARNINGS" "integer" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_CHOICE Ta "string" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_HARDWARE Ta "string" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_TICK Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_TIMESTEPWARNINGS Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_CHOICE Pq Va kern.timecounter.choice
Get the list of kernel time counter sources and their claimed
quality (higher is better).
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_HARDWARE Pq Va kern.timecounter.hardware
Get or set the kernel time counter source by name.
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_TICK Pq Va kern.timecounter.tick
Get the number of times we have reset the kernel time counter
information.
.It Dv KERN_TIMECOUNTER_TIMESTEPWARNINGS Pq Va kern.timecounter.timestepwarnings
Get or set a flag to log a message when the kernel time is
stepped.
.El
.It Dv KERN_TTY Pq Va kern.tty
Return statistics information about tty input/output.
The third level names information is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "KERN_TTY_TKRAWCC" "struct itty" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_TTY_INFO Ta "struct itty" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKCANCC Ta "int64_t" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKNIN Ta "int64_t" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKNOUT Ta "int64_t" Ta "no"
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKRAWCC Ta "int64_t" Ta "no"
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_TTY_INFO Pq Va kern.tty.ttyinfo
Returns an array of
.Vt struct itty
structures containing tty statistics.
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKCANCC Pq Va kern.tty.tk_cancc
Returns the number of input characters in canonical mode.
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKNIN Pq Va kern.tty.tk_nin
Returns the number of input characters from a
.Xr tty 4 .
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKNOUT Pq Va kern.tty.tk_nout
Returns the number of output characters on a
.Xr tty 4 .
.It Dv KERN_TTY_TKRAWCC Pq Va kern.tty.tk_rawcc
Returns the number of input characters in raw mode.
.El
.It Dv KERN_TTYCOUNT Pq Va kern.ttycount
Number of available
.Xr tty 4
devices.
.It Dv KERN_UTC_OFFSET Pq Va kern.utc_offset
The real-time clock's
.Pq RTC
offset from
Coordinated Universal Time
.Pq UTC
expressed as minutes East of UTC+0.
When set,
time read from the RTC is adjusted to remove the offset
and time written to the RTC is adjusted to reapply it.
This may simplify multibooting with an operating system that
does not run the RTC in UTC mode.
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be changed.
.It Dv KERN_VERSION Pq Va kern.version
The system version string.
.It Dv KERN_VIDEO Pq Va kern.video
Control device-independent aspects of the
.Xr video 4
subsystem.
Currently, there is one subnode:
.Bl -column "KERN_VIDEO_RECORD" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_VIDEO_RECORD Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Pp
Its meaning is as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_VIDEO_RECORD Pq Va kern.video.record
If set to the default value of 0, recording is blanked for all video devices.
If the value is non-zero, video recording is enabled.
.El
.It Dv KERN_WATCHDOG Pq Va kern.watchdog
Return information on hardware watchdog timers.
If the kernel does not support a hardware watchdog timer,
attempts to retrieve or set any of the
.Dv KERN_WATCHDOG
values will fail with
.Er EOPNOTSUPP .
.Bl -column "KERN_WATCHDOG_PERIOD" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_WATCHDOG_AUTO Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_WATCHDOG_PERIOD Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_WATCHDOG_AUTO Pq Va kern.watchdog.auto
If set to 1, the kernel refreshes the watchdog timer periodically.
If set to 0, a userland process must ensure that the watchdog timer
gets refreshed by setting the
.Dv KERN_WATCHDOG_PERIOD
variable.
.It Dv KERN_WATCHDOG_PERIOD Pq Va kern.watchdog.period
The period of the watchdog timer in seconds.
Set to 0 to disable the watchdog timer.
.El
.It Dv KERN_WITNESS Pq Va kern.witness
Control settings of
.Xr witness 4 .
.Bl -column "KERN_WITNESS_LOCKTRACE" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv KERN_WITNESS_LOCKTRACE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv KERN_WITNESS_WATCH Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv KERN_WITNESS_LOCKTRACE Pq Va kern.witness.locktrace
When set,
.Xr witness 4
saves a stack trace on each lock acquisition.
The stack traces of acquired locks can be viewed using
.Xr ddb 4 .
.It Dv KERN_WITNESS_WATCH Pq Va kern.witness.watch
Control how
.Xr witness 4
behaves on error.
Valid values are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset indent -compact
.It -1
Disable
.Xr witness 4
completely.
System reboot is needed to re-enable it.
.It 0
Disable lock order checking.
.It 1
Print a message if an error is detected.
.It 2
Print a message if an error is detected,
and a stack trace if possible.
.It 3
The same as 2, but also drop into the kernel debugger.
.El
.El
.It Dv KERN_WXABORT Pq Va kern.wxabort
Generate an abort,
rather than returning an error,
on W^X violation.
.El
.Ss CTL_MACHDEP
The set of variables defined is architecture dependent.
Most architectures define at least the following variables.
.Bl -column "Second level name" "dev_t" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv CPU_CONSDEV Ta "dev_t" Ta "no"
.El
.Pp
Consult the example file
.Pa /etc/examples/sysctl.conf
for a non-exhaustive list of
.Va machdep
variables.
.Ss CTL_NET
The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_NET
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level name" "routing messages" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv PF_ROUTE Ta "routing messages" Ta "no"
.It Dv PF_INET Ta "IPv4 values" Ta "yes"
.It Dv PF_INET6 Ta "IPv6 values" Ta "yes"
.It Dv PF_UNIX Ta "UNIX-domain values" Ta "yes"
.It Dv PF_KEY Ta "key management" Ta "no"
.It Dv PF_MPLS Ta "MPLS values" Ta "yes"
.It Dv PF_PIPEX Ta "PIPEX values" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv PF_ROUTE
Return the entire routing table or a subset of it.
The data is returned as a sequence of routing messages (see
.Xr route 4
for the header file, format, and meaning).
The length of each message is contained in the message header.
.Pp
The third level name is a protocol number, which is currently always 0.
The fourth level name is an address family, which may be set to 0 to
select all address families.
The fifth and sixth level names are as follows:
.Bl -column "Fifth level name" "Sixth level is:" -offset indent
.It Sy "Fifth level name" Ta Sy "Sixth level is:"
.It Dv NET_RT_DUMP Ta "priority"
.It Dv NET_RT_FLAGS Ta "rtflags"
.It Dv NET_RT_IFLIST Ta "None"
.It Dv NET_RT_IFNAMES Ta "None"
.It Dv NET_RT_STATS Ta "None"
.It Dv NET_RT_TABLE Ta "rtableid"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv NET_RT_DUMP
If set to 0, show all routes.
If set to any number, show all routes with that number priority.
If set to a negative number, show routes that do not have the positive
priority value.
.El
.Pp
An optional seventh level name can be provided to select the routing table
on which to run the operation.
If not provided, the current routing table is used.
.It Dv PF_INET
Get or set various global information about IPv4
.Pq Internet Protocol version 4 .
The third level name is the protocol.
The fourth level name is the variable name.
The currently defined protocols and names are:
.Bl -column "Protocol name" "ipsec-expire-acquire" "structure" "Changeable" -offset 2n
.It Sy "Protocol name" Ta Sy "Variable name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It ah Ta enable Ta integer Ta yes
.It bpf Ta bufsize Ta integer Ta yes
.It bpf Ta maxbufsize Ta integer Ta yes
.It carp Ta allow Ta integer Ta yes
.It carp Ta log Ta integer Ta yes
.It carp Ta preempt Ta integer Ta yes
.It divert Ta recvspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It divert Ta sendspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It esp Ta enable Ta integer Ta yes
.It esp Ta udpencap Ta integer Ta yes
.It esp Ta udpencap_port Ta integer Ta yes
.It etherip Ta allow Ta integer Ta yes
.It gre Ta allow Ta integer Ta yes
.It gre Ta wccp Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp Ta bmcastecho Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp Ta errppslimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp Ta maskrepl Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp Ta rediraccept Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp Ta redirtimeout Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp Ta stats Ta structure Ta no
.It icmp Ta tstamprepl Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta arpqueued Ta integer Ta no
.It ip Ta arpdown Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta arptimeout Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta arpq Ta node Ta "N/A"
.It ip Ta directed-broadcast Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta encdebug Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta forwarding Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-allocs Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-auth-alg Ta string Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-bytes Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-comp-alg Ta string Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-enc-alg Ta string Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-expire-acquire Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-firstuse Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-invalid-life Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-pfs Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-soft-allocs Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-soft-bytes Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-soft-firstuse Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-soft-timeout Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta ipsec-timeout Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta maxqueue Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta mforwarding Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta mtudisc Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta mtudisctimeout Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta multipath Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta portfirst Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta porthifirst Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta porthilast Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta portlast Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta redirect Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta sourceroute Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip Ta stats Ta structure Ta no
.It ip Ta ttl Ta integer Ta yes
.It ipcomp Ta enable Ta integer Ta yes
.It ipip Ta allow Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta ackonpush Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta always_keepalive Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta baddynamic Ta array Ta yes
.It tcp Ta ecn Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta ident Ta structure Ta no
.It tcp Ta keepidle Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta keepinittime Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta keepintvl Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta mssdflt Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta reasslimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta rfc1323 Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta rfc3390 Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta rootonly Ta array Ta yes
.It tcp Ta rstppslimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta sack Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta stats Ta structure Ta no
.It tcp Ta synbucketlimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta syncachelimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta synhashsize Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta synuselimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It tcp Ta tso Ta integer Ta yes
.It udp Ta baddynamic Ta array Ta yes
.It udp Ta checksum Ta integer Ta yes
.It udp Ta recvspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It udp Ta rootonly Ta array Ta yes
.It udp Ta sendspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It udp Ta stats Ta structure Ta no
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Li ah.enable Pq Va net.inet.ah.enable
If set to 1, enable the Authentication Header
.Pq AH
IPsec protocol.
Enabled by default.
See
.Xr ipsec 4
for more information.
.It Li bpf.bufsize Pq Va net.bpf.bufsize
The initial size of
.Xr bpf 4
buffers.
.It Li bpf.maxbufsize Pq Va net.bpf.maxbufsize
The maximum size a user may request a
.Xr bpf 4
buffer to be.
.It Li carp.allow Pq Va net.inet.carp.allow
If set to 0, incoming
.Xr carp 4
packets will not be processed.
If set to any other value, processing will occur.
Enabled by default.
.It Li carp.log Pq Va net.inet.carp.log
Controls the verbosity of
.Xr carp 4
logging.
May be a value between 0 and 7 corresponding with
.Xr syslog 3
priorities.
The default value is 2.
.It Li carp.preempt Pq Va net.inet.carp.preempt
If set to 0,
.Xr carp 4
will not attempt to become master if it is receiving advertisements from
another active master.
If set to any other value, carp will become master of the virtual host if it
believes it can send advertisements more frequently than the current master.
Disabled by default.
.It Li divert.recvspace Pq Va net.inet.divert.recvspace
Returns the default divert receive buffer size.
.It Li divert.sendspace Pq Va net.inet.divert.sendspace
Returns the default divert send buffer size.
.It Li esp.enable Pq Va net.inet.esp.enable
If set to 1, enable the Encapsulating Security Payload
.Pq ESP
IPsec protocol.
Enabled by default.
See
.Xr ipsec 4
for more information.
.It Li esp.udpencap Pq Va net.inet.esp.udpencap
If set to 1, enable processing of UDP encapsulated ESP packets.
Enabled by default.
.It Li esp.udpencap_port Pq Va net.inet.udpencap_port
Contains the value of the UDP port that triggers
decapsulation for incoming UDP encapsulated ESP packets.
The default port is 4500.
.It Li etherip.allow Pq Va net.inet.etherip.allow
If set to 0, incoming Ethernet-in-IPv4 packets will not be processed.
If set to any other value, processing will occur.
.It Li gre.allow Pq Va net.inet.gre.allow
If set to 0, incoming GRE packets will not be processed.
If set to any other value, processing will occur.
.It Li gre.wccp Pq Va net.inet.gre.wccp
If set to 0, incoming WCCPv1-style GRE packets will not be processed.
If set to any other value, and gre.allow allows GRE packet processing,
WCCPv1-style GRE packets will be processed.
.It Li icmp.bmcastecho Pq Va net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho
If set to 1, respond to ICMP echo requests destined for
broadcast and multicast addresses.
Note, enabling this could open a system to a type of denial of service attack
called
.Qq smurfing ,
and is thus not advised.
.It Li icmp.errppslimit Pq Va net.inet.icmp.errppslimit
This variable specifies the maximum number of outgoing ICMP error messages
per second.
ICMP error messages exceeding this value are subject to rate limitation
and will not go out from the node.
A negative value disables rate limitation.
.It Li icmp.maskrepl Pq Va kern.inet.icmp.maskrepl
Returns 1 if ICMP network mask requests are to be answered.
.It Li icmp.rediraccept Pq Va kern.inet.icmp.rediraccept
If set to non-zero, the host will accept ICMP redirect packets.
Note that routers will never accept ICMP redirect packets,
and the variable is meaningful on IP hosts only.
.It Li icmp.redirtimeout Pq Va net.inet.icmp.redrttimeout
This variable specifies the lifetime of routing entries generated by incoming
ICMP redirects.
The default timeout is 10 minutes.
.It Li icmp.stats Pq Va kern.inet.icmp.stats
Returns the ICMP statistics in a struct icmpstat.
.It Li icmp.tstamprepl Pq Va net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl
If set to 1, reply to ICMP timestamp requests.
If set to 0, ignore timestamp requests.
.It Li ip.arpqueued Pq Va net.inet.ip.arpqueued
Number of packets ARP resolution is holding onto until it gets a MAC
address for an IP.
.It Li ip.arpdown Pq Va net.inet.ip.arpdown
Lifetime of unresolved ARP entries, in seconds.
.It Li ip.arptimeout Pq Va net.inet.ip.arptimeout
Lifetime of resolved ARP entries, in seconds.
.It Li ip.arpq
Fifth level comprises an array of
.Vt struct ifqueue
structures containing information about ARP queue.
The fifth level names for the elements of
.Vt struct ifqueue
are detailed below.
.Bl -column "Fifth level name" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Fifth level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv IFQCTL_DROPS Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv IFQCTL_LEN Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv IFQCTL_MAXLEN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
.It Dv IFQCTL_DROPS Pq Va net.inet.ip.arpq.drops
Returns number of packet dropped.
.It Dv IFQCTL_LEN Pq Va net.inet.ip.arpq.len
Returns the current queue length.
.It Dv IFQCTL_MAXLEN Pq Va net.inet.ip.arpq.maxlen
Get or set the maximum number of queue length.
.El
.It Li ip.directed-broadcast Pq Va net.inet.ip.directed-broadcast
Returns 1 if directed broadcast behavior is enabled for the host.
.It Li ip.encdebug Pq Va net.inet.ip.encdebug
Returns 1 when error message reporting is enabled for the host.
If the kernel has been compiled with the
.Dv ENCDEBUG
option,
then debugging information will also be reported when this variable is set.
.It Li ip.forwarding Pq Va net.inet.ip.forwarding
If set to 0, IP forwarding is disabled.
The IP stack also requires the destination IP address of incoming packets
to match the IP address of the network interface the packet is bound to.
If set to 1, IP forwarding is enabled for the host,
indicating the host is acting as a router.
If set to 2, IP forwarding is restricted to traffic that has been
IPsec encapsulated or decapsulated by the host.
Enabling packet forwarding (values either 1 or 2) relaxes the requirements
on incoming packets,
so that its destination address must match just any IP address
bound to the host.
The default value is 0.
.It Li ip.ipsec-allocs Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-allocs
The number of IPsec flows that can use a security association before
it expires.
If set to less than or equal to zero, the security association will not
expire because of this counter.
The default value is 0.
.It Li ip.ipsec-auth-alg Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-auth-alg
This is the default authentication algorithm the kernel will instruct
key management daemons to negotiate when establishing security
associations on behalf of the kernel.
Such security associations can occur as a result of a process having
requested some security level through
.Xr setsockopt 2 ,
or as a result of dynamic VPN entries.
Supported values are hmac-md5, hmac-sha1, and hmac-ripemd160.
If set to any other value, it is left to the key management daemons to
select an authentication algorithm for the security association.
The default value is hmac-sha1.
.It Li ip.ipsec-bytes Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-bytes
The number of bytes that will be processed by a security association
before it expires.
If set to less than or equal to zero, the security association will not
expire because of this counter.
The default value is 0.
.It Li ip.ipsec-comp-alg Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-comp-alg
The compression algorithm to use with an IP Compression Association
.Pq IPCA .
Currently the only possible value is
.Dq deflate .
.It Li ip.ipsec-enc-alg Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-enc-alg
This is the default encryption algorithm the kernel will instruct key
management daemons to negotiate when establishing security
associations on behalf of the kernel.
Such security associations can occur as a result of a process having
requested some security level through
.Xr setsockopt 2 ,
or as a result of dynamic VPN entries.
Supported values are aes, des, 3des, blowfish and cast128.
If set to any other value, it is left to the key management daemons to
select an encryption algorithm for the security association.
The default value is aes.
.It Li ip.ipsec-expire-acquire Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-expire-acquire
How long the kernel should allow key management to dynamically acquire
security associations before re-sending a request.
The default value is 30 seconds.
.It Li ip.ipsec-firstuse Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-firstuse
The number of seconds after a security association is first used before
it expires.
If set to less than or equal to zero, the security association will
not expire because of this timer.
The default value is 7200 seconds.
.It Li ip.ipsec-invalid-life Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-invalid-life
The lifetime of embryonic Security Associations (SAs that key management
daemons have reserved but not fully established yet) in seconds.
If set to less than or equal to zero, embryonic SAs will not expire.
The default value is 60.
.It Li ip.ipsec-pfs Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-pfs
If set to any non-zero value, the kernel will ask the key management
daemons to use Perfect Forward Secrecy when establishing IPsec
Security Associations.
Perfect Forward Secrecy makes IPsec Security Associations
cryptographically distinct from each other, such that breaking the key
for one such SA does not compromise any others.
Requiring PFS for every security association significantly increases the
computational load of
.Xr isakmpd 8
exchanges.
The default value is 1.
.It Li ip.ipsec-soft-allocs Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-soft-allocs
The number of IPsec flows that can use a security association before a
message is sent by the kernel to key management for renegotiation
of the security association.
If set to less than or equal to zero, no message is sent to key
management.
The default value is 0.
.It Li ip.ipsec-soft-bytes Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-soft-bytes
The number of bytes that will be processed by a security association
before a message is sent by the kernel to key management for
renegotiation of the security association.
If set to less than or equal to zero, no message is sent to key
management.
The default value is 0.
.It Li ip.ipsec-soft-firstuse Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-soft-firstuse
The number of seconds after a security association is first used
before a message is sent by the kernel to key management for
renegotiation of the security association.
If set to less than or equal to zero, no message is sent to key
management.
The default value is 3600 seconds.
.It Li ip.ipsec-soft-timeout Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-soft-timeout
The number of seconds after a security association is established
before a message is sent by the kernel to key management for
renegotiation of the security association.
If set to less than or equal to zero, no message is sent to key
management.
The default value is 80000 seconds.
.It Li ip.ipsec-timeout Pq Va net.inet.ip.ipsec-timeout
The number of seconds after a security association is established
before it will expire.
If set to less than or equal to zero, the security association will
not expire because of this timer.
The default value is 86400 seconds.
.It Li ip.maxqueue Pq Va net.inet.ip.maxqueue
Fragment flood protection.
Sets the maximum number of unassembled IP fragments in the fragment queue.
.It Li ip.mforwarding Pq Va net.inet.ip.mforwarding
If set to 1, then multicast forwarding is enabled for the host.
The default is 0.
.It Li ip.mtudisc Pq Va net.inet.ip.mtudisc
Returns 1 if Path MTU Discovery is enabled.
.It Li ip.mtudisctimeout Pq Va net.inet.ip.mtudisctimeout
Number of seconds in which a route added by the Path MTU
Discovery engine will time out.
When the route times out, the Path MTU Discovery engine will attempt
to probe a larger path MTU.
.It Li ip.multipath Pq Va net.inet.ip.multipath
This variable enables multipath routing for IPv4 addresses.
If set to 0, only the first route selected will be used for a given
destination regardless of how many routes exist in the routing table.
.It Li ip.portfirst Pq Va net.inet.ip.portfirst
Minimum registered port number for TCP/UDP port allocation.
Registered ports can be used by ordinary user processes
or programs executed by ordinary users.
Cannot be less than 1024 or greater than 49151.
Must be less than ip.portlast.
.It Li ip.porthifirst Pq Va net.inet.ip.porthifirst
Minimum dynamic/private port number for TCP/UDP port allocation.
Dynamic/private ports can be used by ordinary user processes
or programs executed by ordinary users.
Cannot be less than 49152 or greater than 65535.
Must be less than ip.porthilast.
.It Li ip.porthilast Pq Va net.inet.ip.porthilast
Maximum dynamic/private port number for TCP/UDP port allocation.
Dynamic/private ports can be used by ordinary user processes
or programs executed by ordinary users.
Cannot be less than 49152 or greater than 65535.
Must be greater than ip.porthifirst.
.It Li ip.portlast Pq Va net.inet.ip.portlast
Maximum registered port number for TCP/UDP port allocation.
Registered ports can be used by ordinary user processes
or programs executed by ordinary users.
Cannot be less than 1024 or greater than 49151.
Must be greater than ip.portfirst.
.It Li ip.redirect Pq Va net.inet.ip.redirect
Returns 1 when ICMP redirects may be sent by the host.
This option is ignored unless the host is routing IP packets,
and should normally be enabled on all systems.
.It Li ip.sourceroute Pq Va net.inet.ip.sourceroute
Returns 1 when forwarding of source-routed packets is enabled for
the host.
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be changed.
.It Li ip.stats Pq Va net.inet.ip.stats
Returns the IP statistics in a struct ipstat.
.It Li ip.ttl Pq Va net.inet.ip.ttl
The maximum time-to-live (hop count) value for an IP packet
sourced by the system.
This value applies to normal transport protocols, not to ICMP.
.It Li ipcomp.enable Pq Va net.inet.ipcomp.enable
Enable the IPComp protocol.
See
.Xr ipcomp 4
for more information.
.It Li ipip.allow Pq Va net.inet.ipip.allow
If set to 0, incoming IP-in-IP packets will not be processed.
If set to any other value, processing will occur; furthermore, if set
to 2, no checks for spoofing of loopback addresses will be done.
This is useful only for debugging purposes, and should never be used
in production systems.
.It Li tcp.ackonpush Pq Va net.inet.tcp.ackonpush
Returns 1 if TCP segments with the
.Dv TH_PUSH
flag set are being acknowledged immediately, otherwise 0.
.It Li tcp.baddynamic Pq Va net.inet.tcp.baddynamic
An array of
.Vt in_port_t
is returned specifying the bitmask of TCP ports between 512
and 1023 inclusive that should not be allocated dynamically
by the kernel (i.e., they must be bound specifically by port number).
.It Li tcp.ecn Pq Va net.inet.tcp.ecn
Returns 1 if Explicit Congestion Notifications for TCP are enabled.
.It Li tcp.ident Pq Va net.inet.tcp.ident
A
.Vt struct tcp_ident_mapping
specifying a local and foreign endpoint of a TCP
socket is filled in with the effective and real UIDs of the process that
owns the socket.
If no such socket exists, then the effective and real UID values are
both set to \-1.
.It Li tcp.keepidle Pq Va net.inet.tcp.keepidle
If the socket option
.Dv SO_KEEPALIVE
has been set on a socket, then this value specifies how much time in seconds
a connection needs to be idle before keepalives are sent.
.It Li tcp.keepinittime Pq Va net.inet.tcp.keepinittime
Time in seconds to keep alive the initial SYN packet of a TCP handshake.
.It Li tcp.keepintvl Pq Va net.inet.tcp.keepintvl
Time in seconds after a keepalive probe is sent until, in the absence of any
response, another probe is sent.
.It Li tcp.always_keepalive Pq Va net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive
Act as if the option
.Dv SO_KEEPALIVE
was set on all TCP sockets.
.It Li tcp.mssdflt Pq Va net.inet.tcp.mssdflt
The maximum segment size that is used as default for non-local connections.
The default value is 512.
.It Li tcp.reasslimit Pq Va net.inet.tcp.reasslimit
The maximum number of out-of-order TCP
segments the system will store for reassembly.
.It Li tcp.rfc1323 Pq Va net.inet.tcp.rfc1323
Returns 1 if RFC 1323 extensions to TCP are enabled.
.It Li tcp.rfc3390 Pq Va net.inet.tcp.rfc3390
Returns 1 if the TCP Initial Window
is increased to 4 * MSS or 4380 bytes, as specified in RFC 3390.
Returns 2 if the TCP Initial Window
is increased to 10 * MSS or 14600 bytes, as specified in
RFC 6928.
.It Li tcp.rootonly Pq Va net.inet.tcp.rootonly
An array of
.Vt in_port_t
is returned specifying the bitmask of TCP ports
that can only be bound by processes with root euid.
When running with a
.Xr securelevel 7
greater than 0,
this variable may not be changed.
.It Li tcp.rstppslimit Pq Va net.inet.tcp.rstppslimit
This variable specifies the maximum number of outgoing TCP RST packets
per second.
TCP RST packets exceeding this value are subject to rate limitation
and will not go out from the node.
A negative value disables rate limitation.
.It Li tcp.sack Pq Va net.inet.tcp.sack
Returns 1 if RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgements are enabled.
.It Li tcp.stats Pq Va net.inet.tcp.stats
Returns the TCP statistics in a struct tcpstat.
.It Li tcp.synbucketlimit Pq Va net.inet.tcp.synbucketlimit
The maximum number of entries allowed per hash bucket in the TCP SYN cache.
.It Li tcp.syncachelimit Pq Va net.inet.tcp.syncachelimit
The maximum number of entries allowed in the TCP SYN cache.
.It Li tcp.synhashsize Pq Va net.inet.tcp.synhashsize
The number of buckets in the TCP SYN cache hash array.
After the value is set, the actual size changes when the alternative
SYN cache becomes empty and both SYN caches are swapped.
.It Li tcp.synuselimit Pq Va net.inet.tcp.synuselimit
The minimum number of times the hash function for the TCP SYN cache is used
before it is reseeded.
.It Li tcp.tso Pq Va net.inet.tcp.tso
If set to 0, disable TCP segmentation offload (TSO).
If set to 1, TSO is enabled (the default).
.It Li udp.baddynamic Pq Va net.inet.udp.baddynamic
Analogous to
.Li tcp.baddynamic
but for UDP sockets.
.It Li udp.checksum Pq Va net.inet.udp.checksum
Returns 1 when UDP checksums are being computed and checked.
Disabling UDP checksums is strongly discouraged.
.It Li udp.recvspace Pq Va net.inet.udp.recvspace
Returns the default UDP receive buffer size.
.It Li udp.rootonly Pq Va net.inet.udp.rootonly
Analogous to
.Li tcp.rootonly
but for UDP sockets.
.It Li udp.sendspace Pq Va net.inet.udp.sendspace
Returns the default UDP send buffer size.
.It Li udp.stats Pq Va net.inet.udp.stats
Returns the UDP statistics in a struct udpstat.
.El
.It Dv PF_INET6
Get or set various global information about IPv6
.Pq Internet Protocol version 6 .
The third level name is the protocol.
The fourth level name is the variable name.
The currently defined protocols and names are:
.Bl -column "Protocol name" "multicast_mtudisc" "integer" "yes" -offset indent
.It Sy "Protocol name" Ta Sy "Variable name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It icmp6 Ta errppslimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta mtudisc_hiwat Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta mtudisc_lowat Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta nd6_debug Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta nd6_delay Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta nd6_maxnudhint Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta nd6_mmaxtries Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta nd6_umaxtries Ta integer Ta yes
.It icmp6 Ta redirtimeout Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta auto_flowlabel Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta dad_count Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta dad_pending Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta defmcasthlim Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta forwarding Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta hdrnestlimit Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta hlim Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta log_interval Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta maxdynroutes Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta maxfragpackets Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta maxfrags Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta mforwarding Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta mtudisctimeout Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta multicast_mtudisc Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta multipath Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta neighborgcthresh Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta redirect Ta integer Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta soiikey Ta uint8_t[IP6_SOIIKEY_LEN] Ta yes
.It ip6 Ta use_deprecated Ta integer Ta yes
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "123456" -compact
.It Li icmp6.errppslimit Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.errppslimit
This variable specifies the maximum number of outgoing ICMPv6 error messages
per second.
ICMPv6 error messages exceeding this value are subject to rate limitation
and will not go out from the node.
A negative value will disable the rate limitation.
.Pp
.It Li icmp6.mtudisc_hiwat Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.mtudisc_hiwat
.It Li icmp6.mtudisc_lowat Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.mtudisc_lowat
These variables define the maximum number of routing table entries
created due to path MTU discovery
.Pq preventing denial-of-service attacks with ICMPv6 too big messages .
After IPv6 path MTU discovery happens, path MTU information is kept in
the routing table.
If the number of routing table entries exceeds this value,
the kernel will not attempt to keep the path MTU information.
.Li icmp6.mtudisc_hiwat
is used when we have verified ICMPv6 too big messages.
.Li icmp6.mtudisc_lowat
is used when we have unverified ICMPv6 too big messages.
Verification is performed by using address/port pairs kept in connected PCBs.
A negative value disables the upper limit.
.Pp
.It Li icmp6.nd6_debug Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug
If set to non-zero, IPv6 neighbor discovery will generate debugging
messages.
The debug output is useful for diagnosing IPv6 interoperability issues.
The flag must be set to 0 for normal operation.
.Pp
.It Li icmp6.nd6_delay Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_delay
This variable specifies the
.Dv DELAY_FIRST_PROBE_TIME
timing constant in IPv6 neighbor discovery specification
.Pq RFC 4861 ,
in seconds.
.Pp
.It Li icmp6.nd6_maxnudhint Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_maxnudhint
IPv6 neighbor discovery permits upper layer protocols to supply reachability
hints, to avoid unnecessary neighbor discovery exchanges.
This variable defines the number of consecutive hints the neighbor discovery
layer will take.
For example, by setting the variable to 3, neighbor discovery will take
a maximum of 3 consecutive hints.
After receiving 3 hints, the neighbor discovery layer will instead perform
the normal neighbor discovery process.
.Pp
.It Li icmp6.nd6_mmaxtries Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_mmaxtries
This variable specifies the
.Dv MAX_MULTICAST_SOLICIT
constant in IPv6 neighbor discovery specification
.Pq RFC 4861 .
.Pp
.It Li icmp6.nd6_umaxtries Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_umaxtries
This variable specifies the
.Dv MAX_UNICAST_SOLICIT
constant in IPv6 neighbor discovery specification
.Pq RFC 4861 .
.Pp
.It Li icmp6.redirtimeout Pq Va net.inet6.icmp6.redirtimeout
The variable specifies the lifetime of routing entries generated by
incoming ICMPv6 redirects.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.auto_flowlabel Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.auto_flowlabel
On connected transport protocol packets,
fill the IPv6 flowlabel field to help intermediate routers identify
packet flows.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.dad_count Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.dad_count
This variable configures the number of IPv6 DAD
.Pq duplicated address detection
probe packets.
These packets are generated when IPv6 interfaces are first brought up.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.dad_pending Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.dad_pending
This variable displays the number of pending IPv6 DAD
.Pq duplicated address detection
before completion.
It is used to make sure that DAD is completed before
.Xr netstart 8
is executed.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.defmcasthlim Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.defmcasthlim
The default hop limit value for an IPv6 multicast packet sourced by the node.
This value applies to all the transport protocols on top of IPv6.
Methods for overriding this value are documented in
.Xr ip6 4 .
.Pp
.It Li ip6.forwarding Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.forwarding
Returns 1 when IPv6 forwarding is enabled for the node,
meaning that the node is acting as a router.
Returns 0 when IPv6 forwarding is disabled for the node,
meaning that the node is acting as a host.
Note that IPv6 defines node behavior for the
.Dq router
and
.Dq host
cases quite differently, and changing this variable during operation
may cause serious trouble.
Hence, this variable should only be set at bootstrap time.
As with IPv4, if forwarding is disabled then the destination address of
incoming packets must match the IP address bound to the interface.
If forwarding is enabled, the check is relaxed
so that the destination IP address of incoming packets must match
just any address bound to the host.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.hdrnestlimit Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.hdrnestlimit
The number of IPv6 extension headers permitted on incoming IPv6 packets.
If set to 0, the node will accept as many extension headers as possible.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.hlim Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.hlim
The default hop limit value for an IPv6 unicast packet sourced by the node.
This value applies to all the transport protocols on top of IPv6.
Methods for overriding this value are documented in
.Xr ip6 4 .
.Pp
.It Li ip6.log_interval Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.log_interval
This variable permits adjusting the amount of logs generated by the
IPv6 packet forwarding engine.
The value indicates the number of
seconds of interval which must elapse between log output.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.maxdynroutes Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.maxdynroutes
Maximum number of routes created by redirect.
Set to negative to disable.
The default value is 4096.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.maxfragpackets Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.maxfragpackets
The maximum number of fragmented packets the node will accept.
0 means that the node will not accept any fragmented packets.
\-1 means that the node will accept as many fragmented packets as it receives.
The flag is provided basically for avoiding possible DoS attacks.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.maxfrags Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.maxfrags
The maximum number of fragments the node will accept.
0 means that the node will not accept any fragments.
\-1 means that the node will accept as many fragments as it receives.
The flag is provided basically for avoiding possible DoS attacks.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.mforwarding Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.mforwarding
If set to 1, then multicast forwarding is enabled for the host.
The default is 0.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.multicast_mtudisc Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.multicast_mtudisc
This variable controls generation of ICMPv6 Too Big messages
when the machine is performing as an IPv6 multicast router.
If set to 1, an ICMPv6 Too Big message will be generated for multicast packets
which were too big to be forwarded.
If set to 0, the ICMPv6 Too Big message will be suppressed.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.multipath Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.multipath
This variable enables multipath routing for IPv6 addresses.
If set to 0, only the first route selected will be used for a given
destination regardless of how many routes exist in the routing table.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.mtudisctimeout Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.mtudisctimeout
Number of seconds in which a route added by the Path MTU
Discovery engine will time out.
When the route times out, the Path MTU Discovery engine will attempt
to probe a larger path MTU.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.neighborgcthresh Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.neighborgcthresh
Maximum number of entries in neighbor cache.
Set to negative to disable.
The default value is 2048.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.redirect Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.redirect
Returns 1 when ICMPv6 redirects may be sent by the node.
This option is ignored unless the node is routing IP packets,
and should normally be enabled on all systems.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.soii Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.soiikey
This variable configures the secret key for the RFC 7217 algorithm to
calculate a persistent Semantically Opaque Interface Identifier (SOII)
for IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) addresses.
It must be
.Dv IP6_SOIIKEY_LEN
bytes long.
.Pp
.It Li ip6.use_deprecated Pq Va net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated
This variable controls the use of deprecated addresses, specified in
RFC 4862 5.5.4.
.El
.Pp
We reuse
.Li net.inet.tcp
and
.Li net.inet.udp
for TCP/UDP over IPv6.
.It Dv PF_UNIX
Get or set various global information about UNIX-domain protocol family.
The third level name is the socket type.
The fourth level name is the variable name.
The currently defined socket types and names are:
.Bl -column "Protocol name" "ipsec-expire-acquire" "structure" "Changeable" -offset 2n
.It Sy "Socket type" Ta Sy "Variable name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It stream Ta recvspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It stream Ta sendspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It dgram Ta recvspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It dgram Ta sendspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It seqpacket Ta recvspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It seqpacket Ta sendspace Ta integer Ta yes
.It inflight Ta Ta integer Ta no
.It deferred Ta Ta integer Ta no
.El
.Pp
The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Li stream.recvspace Pq Va net.unix.stream.recvspace
Returns the default
.Dv SOCK_STREAM
receive buffer size.
.It Li stream.sendspace Pq Va net.unix.stream.sendspace
Returns the default
.Dv SOCK_STREAM
send buffer size.
.It Li dgram.recvspace Pq Va net.unix.dgram.recvspace
Returns the default
.Dv SOCK_DGRAM
receive buffer size.
.It Li dgram.sendspace Pq Va net.unix.dgram.sendspace
Returns the default
.Dv SOCK_DGRAM
send buffer size.
.It Li seqpacket.recvspace Pq Va net.unix.seqpacket.recvspace
Returns the default
.Dv SOCK_SEQPACKET
receive buffer size.
.It Li seqpacket.sendspace Pq Va net.unix.seqpacket.sendspace
Returns the default
.Dv SOCK_SEQPACKET
send buffer size.
.It Li inflight Pq Va net.unix.inflight
Returns the number of file descriptors inflight.
.It Li deferred Pq Va net.unix.deferred
Returns the number of file descriptors to be closed.
.El
.It Dv PF_KEY
Return
.Xr ipsec 4
database dumps.
The second level name is
.Dv PF_KEY_V2 .
The third level name selects the database as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "NET_KEY_SADB_DUMP" -offset indent -compact
.It Dv NET_KEY_SADB_DUMP
Security Association database (SADB).
.It Dv NET_KEY_SPD_DUMP
IPsec flow database (SPD).
.El
.It Dv PF_MPLS
Get or set global information about MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching).
.Bl -column "MPLSCTL_MAPTTL_IP6 " "integer" "not applicable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv MPLSCTL_DEFTTL Ta integer Ta yes
.It Dv MPLSCTL_MAPTTL_IP Ta integer Ta yes
.It Dv MPLSCTL_MAPTTL_IP6 Ta integer Ta yes
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv MPLSCTL_DEFTTL Pq Va net.mpls.ttl
Set or get the default TTL value which is used for MPLS (Shim) Header.
The default is 255.
.It Dv MPLSCTL_MAPTTL_IP Pq Va net.mpls.mapttl_ip
If set to 1, the TTL field is synchronized between the IP header and the
MPLS label stack.
If set to 0, the IP header TTL is not modified while passing through MPLS
and the MPLS label stack is initialized with the
.Dv MPLSCTL_DEFTTL .
The default is 1.
.It Dv MPLSCTL_MAPTTL_IP6 Pq Va net.mpls.mapttl_ip6
If set to 1, the TTL field is synchronized between the IPv6 header and the
MPLS label stack.
If set to 0, the IPv6 header TTL is not modified while passing through MPLS
and the MPLS label stack is initialized with the
.Dv MPLSCTL_DEFTTL .
The default is 0.
.El
.It Dv PF_PIPEX Pq Va net.pipex
Get or set global information about PIPEX.
.Pp
The currently defined variable names are:
.Bl -column "Third level name" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv PIPEXCTL_ENABLE Ta integer Ta yes
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv PIPEXCTL_ENABLE
If set to 1, enable PIPEX processing.
The default is 0.
.El
.El
.Ss CTL_VFS
The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_VFS
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level name" "VFS generic info" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv VFS_GENERIC Ta "VFS generic info" Ta "no"
.It Dv "filesystem #" Ta "filesystem info" Ta "no"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv VFS_GENERIC
This second level identifier requests generic information about the
VFS layer.
Within it, the following third level identifiers exist:
.Bl -column "Third level name" "struct vfsconf" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv VFS_CONF Ta "struct vfsconf" Ta "no"
.It Dv VFS_MAXTYPENUM Ta "int" Ta "no"
.El
.It filesystem #
After finding the filesystem dependent
.Va vfc_typenum
using
.Dv VFS_GENERIC
with
.Dv VFS_CONF ,
it is possible to access filesystem dependent information.
.Pp
Some filesystems may contain settings.
.Bl -tag -width "123"
.It FFS
.Bl -column "FFS_SD_DIRECT_BLK_PTRS" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv FFS_DIRHASH_DIRSIZE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_DIRHASH_MAXMEM Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_DIRHASH_MEM Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv FFS_MAX_SOFTDEPS Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_BLK_LIMIT_HIT Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_BLK_LIMIT_PUSH Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_DIR_ENTRY Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_DIRECT_BLK_PTRS Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_INDIR_BLK_PTRS Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_INO_LIMIT_HIT Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_INO_LIMIT_PUSH Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_INODE_BITMAP Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_SYNC_LIMIT_HIT Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_TICKDELAY Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv FFS_SD_WORKLIST_PUSH Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv FFS_DIRHASH_DIRSIZE Pq Va vfs.ffs.dirhash_dirsize
The minimum size of a directory, in bytes, before it is considered for hashing.
.It Dv FFS_DIRHASH_MAXMEM Pq Va vfs.ffs.dirhash_maxmem
The maximum amount of memory, in bytes, to be used for storing directory
hashes.
.It Dv FFS_DIRHASH_MEM Pq Va vfs.ffs.dirhash_mem
The amount of memory currently used by all directory hashes.
.It Dv FFS_MAX_SOFTDEPS Pq Va vfs.ffs.max_softdeps
Maximum structures before slowdowns.
.It Dv FFS_SD_BLK_LIMIT_HIT Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_blk_limit_hit
Number of times block slowdown imposed.
.It Dv FFS_SD_BLK_LIMIT_PUSH Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_blk_limit_push
Number of times block limit neared.
.It Dv FFS_SD_DIR_ENTRY Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_dir_entry
Bufs redirtied as dir entry cannot write.
.It Dv FFS_SD_DIRECT_BLK_PTRS Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_direct_blk_ptrs
Bufs redirtied as direct ptrs not written.
.It Dv FFS_SD_INDIR_BLK_PTRS Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_indir_blk_ptrs
Bufs redirtied as indirect ptrs not written.
.It Dv FFS_SD_INO_LIMIT_HIT Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_ino_limit_hit
Number of times inode limit imposed.
.It Dv FFS_SD_INO_LIMIT_PUSH Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_ino_limit_push
Number of times inode limit neared.
.It Dv FFS_SD_INODE_BITMAP Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_inode_bitmap
Bufs redirtied as inode bitmap not written.
.It Dv FFS_SD_SYNC_LIMIT_HIT Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_sync_limit_hit
Number of synchronous slowdowns imposed.
.It Dv FFS_SD_TICKDELAY Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_tickdelay
Ticks to pause during slowdown.
.It Dv FFS_SD_WORKLIST_PUSH Pq Va vfs.ffs.sd_worklist_push
Number of worklist cleanups.
.El
.It NFS
.Bl -column "Third level name" "struct nfsstats" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv NFS_NFSSTATS Ta "struct nfsstats" Ta "yes"
.It Dv NFS_NIOTHREADS Ta "int" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Dv NFS_NIOTHREADS Pq Va vfs.nfs.iothreads
The number of I/O kernel threads for NFS clients.
The default is 4;
the maximum is 20.
.El
.It FUSE
.Bl -column "FUSEFS_POOL_NBPAGES" "Type" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv FUSEFS_INFBUFS Ta "int" Ta "no"
.It Dv FUSEFS_OPENDEVS Ta "int" Ta "no"
.It Dv FUSEFS_POOL_NBPAGES Ta "int" Ta "no"
.It Dv FUSEFS_WAITFBUFS Ta "int" Ta "no"
.El
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Dv FUSEFS_INFBUFS Pq Va vfs.fuse.fusefs_fbufs_in
The number of inbound fusebufs.
.It Dv FUSEFS_OPENDEVS Pq Va vfs.fuse.fusefs_open_devices
The number of FUSE devices opened.
.It Dv FUSEFS_POOL_NBPAGES Pq Va vfs.fuse.fusefs_pool_pages
The number of pages used for fusebuf memory.
.It Dv FUSEFS_WAITFBUFS Pq Va vfs.fuse.fusefs_fbufs_wait
The number of fusebufs waiting for a response.
.El
.El
.El
.Ss CTL_VM
The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_VM
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level name" "swap encrypt values" "yes" -offset indent
.It Sy "Second level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv VM_ANONMIN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv VM_LOADAVG Ta "struct loadavg" Ta "no"
.It Dv VM_MALLOC_CONF Ta "string" Ta "yes"
.It Dv VM_MAXSLP Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv VM_METER Ta "struct vmtotal" Ta "no"
.It Dv VM_NKMEMPAGES Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv VM_PSSTRINGS Ta "struct psstrings" Ta "no"
.It Dv VM_SWAPENCRYPT Ta "swap encrypt values" Ta "yes"
.It Dv VM_USPACE Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv VM_UVMEXP Ta "struct uvmexp" Ta "no"
.It Dv VM_VNODEMIN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.It Dv VM_VTEXTMIN Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv VM_ANONMIN Pq Va vm.anonmin
Percentage of physical memory available for
pages which contain anonymous mapping.
.It Dv VM_LOADAVG Pq Va vm.loadavg
Return the load average history.
The returned data consists of a
.Vt struct loadavg .
.It Dv VM_MALLOC_CONF Pq Va vm.malloc_conf
String of option flags for the
.Xr malloc 3
family of functions
which will be applied to all programs starting in the future.
The string contains a maximum of 15 characters.
.It Dv VM_MAXSLP Pq Va vm.maxslp
The time for a process to be blocked before being swappable,
in seconds.
.It Dv VM_METER Pq Va vm.vmmeter
Return the system wide virtual memory statistics.
The returned data consists of a
.Vt struct vmtotal .
.It Dv VM_NKMEMPAGES Pq Va vm.nkmempages
Number of pages in kmem_map.
.It Dv VM_PSSTRINGS Pq Va vm.psstrings
Returns the address of the process
.Vt struct ps_strings .
The
.Xr ps 1
program uses it to locate the argument and environment strings.
.It Dv VM_SWAPENCRYPT
Contains statistics about swap encryption.
The string and integer information available for the third level is
detailed below.
.Bl -column "Third level name" "integer" "Changeable" -offset indent
.It Sy "Third level name" Ta Sy "Type" Ta Sy "Changeable"
.It Dv SWPENC_CREATED Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv SWPENC_DELETED Ta "integer" Ta "no"
.It Dv SWPENC_ENABLE Ta "integer" Ta "yes"
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Dv SWPENC_CREATED Pq Va vm.swapencrypt.keyscreated
The number of encryption keys that have been randomly created.
The swap partition is divided into sections of normally 512KB.
Each section has its own encryption key.
.It Dv SWPENC_DELETED Pq Va vm.swapencrypt.keysdeleted
The number of encryption keys that have been deleted, thus effectively
erasing the data that has been encrypted with them.
Encryption keys are deleted when their reference counter reaches zero.
.It Dv SWPENC_ENABLE Pq Va vm.swapencrypt.enable
Set to 1 to enable swap encryption for all processes.
A 0 disables swap encryption.
Turning this option on does not affect swap data already on the disk,
but all newly written data will be encrypted.
When swap encryption is turned on, automatic
.Xr crash 8
dumps are disabled.
.El
.It Dv VM_USPACE Pq Va vm.uspace
The number of bytes allocated for each kernel stack.
.It Dv VM_UVMEXP Pq Va vm.uvmexp
Contains statistics about the UVM memory management system.
.It Dv VM_VNODEMIN Pq Va vm.vnodemin
Percentage of physical memory available for
pages which contain cached file data.
.It Dv VM_VTEXTMIN Pq Va vm.vtextmin
Percentage of physical memory available for
pages which contain cached executable data.
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If the call to
.Fn sysctl
is unsuccessful, \-1 is returned and
.Va errno
is set appropriately.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "uvm/uvmXswapXencrypt.h  " -compact
.It In sys/sysctl.h
top level identifiers and second level kernel and hardware
identifiers
.It In sys/socket.h
second level network identifiers
.It In sys/gmon.h
third level profiling identifiers
.It In uvm/uvmexp.h
second level virtual memory identifiers
.It In uvm/uvm_swap_encrypt.h
third level virtual memory identifiers
.It In net/if.h
packet input/output queue identifiers
.It In net/pipex.h
third level PIPEX identifiers
.It In netinet/in.h
third and fourth level IPv4/v6 identifiers
.It In netinet/ip_divert.h
fourth level divert identifiers
.It In netinet/icmp_var.h
fourth level ICMP identifiers
.It In netinet/icmp6.h
fourth level ICMPv6 identifiers
.It In netinet/tcp_var.h
fourth level TCP identifiers
.It In netinet/udp_var.h
fourth level UDP identifiers
.It In ddb/db_var.h
second level ddb identifiers
.It In sys/mount.h
second level vfs identifiers
.It In miscfs/fuse/fusefs.h
third level fusefs identifiers
.It In nfs/nfs.h
third level NFS identifiers
.It In ufs/ffs/ffs_extern.h
third level FFS identifiers
.It In machine/cpu.h
second level CPU identifiers
.El
.Sh ERRORS
The following errors may be reported:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EFAULT
The buffer
.Fa name ,
.Fa oldp ,
.Fa newp ,
or length pointer
.Fa oldlenp
contains an invalid address.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The
.Fa name
array is less than two or greater than
.Dv CTL_MAXNAME .
.It Bq Er EINVAL
A non-null
.Fa newp
pointer is given and its specified length in
.Fa newlen
is too large or too small.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
The length pointed to by
.Fa oldlenp
is too short to hold the requested value.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The mib specified does not exist, or exceeds the range that is possible.
.It Bq Er ENXIO
If the mib is a sparsely populated array, this error may be returned
instead.
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
The
.Fa name
array specifies an intermediate rather than terminal name.
.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
The
.Fa name
array specifies a value that is unknown.
.It Bq Er EPERM
An attempt is made to set a read-only value.
.It Bq Er EPERM
A process without appropriate privileges attempts to set a value.
.It Bq Er EPERM
An attempt to change a value protected by the current kernel security
level is made.
.It Bq Er ESRCH
No process could be found which corresponds to the given process ID.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pathconf 2 ,
.Xr sysconf 3 ,
.Xr ddb 4 ,
.Xr sysctl.conf 5 ,
.Xr securelevel 7 ,
.Xr sysctl 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn sysctl
function first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .