Re: nmbclusters and nmbufs

2003-08-19 Thread Maxim Konovalov
-questions material indeed. On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, 11:53+0400, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody advise please if I want to increase nmbclusters option in > kernel, can I just type > sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384" > without rebooting the server, or is the only way to se

Re: NMBCLUSTERS question

2002-01-28 Thread Terry Lambert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the kernel smart enough to know if there is enough memory available if you > allocate too many nmbclusters? No. > For example, if you have a disk with a kernel compiled with 25000 > clusters and you pop it on a machine with only 64M, will it crash > and burn? For t

Re: NMBCLUSTERS question

2002-01-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020128 16:35] wrote: > > Is the kernel smart enough to know if there is enough memory available if you > allocate too many nmbclusters? For example, if you have a disk with a kernel > compiled with 25000 clusters and you pop it on a machine with only 64M

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-06 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Egervary Gergely wrote: > what size of $SUBJECT should be used on a box with two _extremely_ busy > 100baseTX interfaces? This is what we run on our mail servers (with only one interface :) ) 867/8780/16384 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) I think we've blown up the

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Egervary Gergely said: > hmm right. well I've just compiled with 4096, my statistics after 9 > minutes uptime: > > 2308/3182/4096 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) I'd say you need to raise it a bit more then if you're at 75% capacity after only 9 minutes :)

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Egervary Gergely
> Interface type/speed is less important than number of open sockets. > I've got an NFS server with a 100mbit card in it that is pretty heavily > used the whole day, and after 22 days of uptime, netstat -m shows: > > 72/596/2112 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > > That's just using what

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Egervary Gergely said: > what size of $SUBJECT should be used on a box with two _extremely_ > busy 100baseTX interfaces? Interface type/speed is less important than number of open sockets. I've got an NFS server with a 100mbit card in it that is pretty heavily used