or if future FreeBSD updates decide to "go their own
way"... yes.

That could just as easily happen today. Every OS release has all kinds of changes to defaults, and frequently don't get caught until they break something. Even if today's FreeBSD defaults worked for this scenario, the next release could change to a value that doesn't.

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 12:46 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

On 5/10/23 03:40, Tom Beecher wrote:

>
> Adjusting a single tunable is 'onerous'? Ok.

In the context of long term administration of the environment, years
after everybody has forgotten about the hack, or worse, folk leave and
others take over; or if future FreeBSD updates decide to "go their own
way"... yes.

Mark.