On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Doug White wrote:
>When people refer to mbufs, they refer to mbuf clusters, of which there's
>a fixed number. The kernel will allocate more mbufs as necessary.
Uhm, actually, mbufs are also allocated from mb_map. Thus, they are
also capped. (Unless I'm missing something big again... :-) )
>The usual rule of thumb is that the peak should never exceed 75% of the
>max mbufs in the system to allow for sufficient overhead in extreme
>situations. In this case you're at 80%, so you should probably recompile
>your kernel and bump maxusers.
Actually, for mbufs and mbuf clusters, you should increase
NMBCLUSTERS, which will serve as an indication of allocate-able clusters
as well as, ultimately, mbufs.
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