The configuration file conforms to this format:
- Each run-time tunable appears on a new line.
- Blank lines are ignored.
- A comment line starts with a # character. However, as the configuration file is processed at run-time, we advise that you limit the number of comments, in order to keep to a minimum the time taken to process the configuration file.
- The maximum number of characters permitted in a comment line is 80, including any new-line or carriage return characters that might be placed at the end of the line by some editors.
- Each space in the definition can be replaced with tabs or more than one space.
The format of each tunable is:
set name=value
where:
-
name
- The name of the run-time tunable .
-
value
- The value to be assigned to the run-time tunable.
Where value is numeric, a leading zero indicates that the value should be treated as octal (that is, base 8). For example, 07 (octal) is 7 (decimal), while 010 (octal) is 8 (decimal); however, 08 (octal) and 09 (octal) are invalid octal values. Hexadecimal values can also be set by using numeric values that begin with with 0x.