sysctl is a software mechanism in some Unix-like operating systems that reads and modifies the attributes of the system kernel such as its version number...

used for their configuration. sysfs provides functionality similar to the sysctl mechanism found in BSD operating systems, with the difference that sysfs...

include the line "net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0" in /etc/sysctl.conf (or /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf as of systemd 207). Default setting for FreeBSD, OpenBSD...

According to an OpenBSD developer, ioctl and sysctl are the two system calls for extending the kernel, with sysctl possibly being the simpler of the two. In...

activated through the sysctl interface by setting 1 as value for the sysctl net.inet.tcp.ecn.enable parameter. Likewise, the sysctl net.inet.tcp.ecn can...

SYSTAT program. There is also a method of using sysctl to call the system's last boot time: $ sysctl kern.boottime kern.boottime: { sec = 1271934886,...

exposes kernel data structures. sysfs provides functionality similar to the sysctl mechanism found in BSD operating systems, with the difference that sysfs...

compile-time option in the kernel configuration, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, and a sysctl kernel parameter, kernel.sysrq. On newer kernels (since 2.6.12), it is possible...

pages shared between processes, or the use of transparent huge pages; new sysctl settings allow NUMA balancing to be enabled or disabled, as well as the...

Ports, ... 49152-65535 (never assigned) Microsoft KB Article 929851 "IP Sysctl". The Linux Kernel documentation. Retrieved 2021-06-27. The default values...