Linuxconf Kernel Configurator Module
  Gustavo Niemeyer


  This dialog allows you to configure many aspects of the linux kernel.
  You should be very careful with what you change here, since a bad
  option may crash your linux box and require that you boot as single
  user to correct your options.

  1.  Introduction

  1.1.  Missing options

  Note that maybe some of the options listed here are not available for
  you. It depends if your kernel is offering this functionality or not.


  1.2.  Default options

  When you set an option to default, it doesn't mean that as soon as you
  get out of linuxconf, this option will return to default value.
  Linuxconf has no way to know what are the default options of your
  kernel. It means that when you set an option to default, Linuxconf
  will not intervent in this option anymore, no matter what it is set
  to. Remember that kernel options are usually set in the /proc file
  system and, as this file system is mapped in memory, everything will
  be reset when you shutdown your machine.


  2.  Options

  Most of these descriptions were extracted from the kernel
  documentation.


  2.1.  File system


  2.1.1.  Max. file handles

  This value denotes the maximum number of file handles that the Linux
  kernel will allocate. When you get a lot of error messages about
  running out of file handles, you might want to raise this limit.


  2.1.2.  Max. inode handles

  This value denotes the maximum number of inode handlers. This value
  should be 3 to 4 times larger than the value in "Max. file handles",
  since stdin, stdout, and network sockets also need an inode struct to
  handle them. If you regularly run out of inodes, you should increase
  this value.


  2.1.3.  Max. num. cached disk quota

  This value denotes the maximum number of cached disk quota entries.
  If the number of free cached disk quotas is very low and you have a
  large number of simultaneous system users, you might want to raise the
  limit.


  2.1.4.  Max. super block handlers

  Every mounted file system needs a super block, so if you plan to mount
  lots of file systems, you may want to increase these numbers.
  2.2.  General


  2.2.1.  Ctrl-alt-del

  When this option is disabled, ctrl-alt-del is trapped and sent to the
  ``init'' program to handle a graceful restart. However, when it is
  enabled, Linux's reaction to this key combination will be an immediate
  reboot, without syncing its dirty buffers.



  2.2.2.  Fair Scheduler

  Fair Scheduler is a kernel option that greatly improves kernel
  abilities to handle processes who try to monopolize the processor
  time.


  2.2.3.  Shared memory size (meg)

  This specify the largest shared memory segment usable.


  2.2.4.  Max processes

  This controls the maximum number of processes (or threads) available
  on the system.


  2.3.  Semaphores

  This controls the System V IPC semaphores.


  2.3.1.  Max semaphores per ID.



  2.3.2.  Max semaphore in system

  This value defaults to "Max IDs" multiply by "Max semaphore per ID".


  2.3.3.  Max oper. per system call



  2.3.4.  Max IDs

  Maximum number of IDs in the system. Each ID may control several
  semaphores. This is usually the value you want to increase.