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Date:      Mon, 7 Dec 1998 10:44:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Keyser Soze <mkultra@dqc.org>
To:        aron <aron@flyingcroc.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NMBCLUSTERS: Max Sane Values??
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.05.9812071043430.17767-100000@dqc.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.04.9812061040440.2652-100000@chaos.necropolis.org>

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what is the absolute max you can set this to, BTW? for version 2.2.x and
3.0.

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, aron wrote:

> 
> 3.0-RELEASE
> 
> The handbook says max for NMBCLUSTERS is 4096 however I am pretty sure
> that it is out of date...
> 
> I currently have NMBCLUSTERS set to 10240 with no ill effects yet i still
> get panics every two days or so... (the box mostly runs tons of apache
> procs)
> 
> so my two curiosities are:
> 
> is there a max sane value for NMBCLUSTERS and if so what is it ?
> 
> and why does this situation cause a kernel panic anyway?? I seem to
> remember a similar situation with NetBSD a while back which cured the
> kernel panics when mbufs were exhausted and thought freebsd had also
> corrected the problem even earlier....
> 
> any info or pointers appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> aron
> 
> 
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