My 15″ PowerBook G4 has returned this morning! It’s been a week since it was sent off for repair, but it was worth the wait to have a case that closes correctly now. All of the software and info on the hard drive appears to have been untouched. I’ll probably do a fresh install since just to see what that involves. I’ve got all of my data backed up already so that isn’t a big deal.
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[…] Now that my PowerBook is back I’ve done a fresh install of Mac OS X. Along with restoring all of my data and applications I’ve been tweaking a few settings. In the past I’ve edited /etc/rc to adjust sysctl values. It turns out that Mac OS X (at least as of 10.3.4) supports using /etc/sysctl.conf to set sysctl values. Here’s what my /etc/sysctl.conf looks like: kern.sysv.shmmax=167772160 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=64 kern.sysv.shmseg=16 kern.sysv.shmall=65536 kern.maxproc=2048 kern.maxprocperuid=512 Update (8:42am 7 Jul 04): Hmmm, even though there is clearly code in /etc/rc to set sysctl values from /etc/sysctl.conf they don’t appear to actually change the values. I guess for now I’ll be putting these values directly into /etc/rc again. If anyone has more info on this please leave a comment. […]