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Date:      06 Apr 1999 23:55:58 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Arjan de Vet <Arjan.deVet@adv.iae.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Increasing both NBUF and NMBCLUSTERS leads to panics
Message-ID:  <xzp7lrps9ap.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:06:27 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <199904061651.SAA11984@adv.iae.nl> <199904061806.LAA09677@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
> :Besides increasing the NBUF parameter I also want to increase
> :NMBCLUSTERS of course because the machine will handle quite some network
> :traffic. But for some reason increasing both NBUF and NMBCLUSTERS only
> :leads to panics :-(.
> 
>     The problem is that insufficient KVM is being reserved.  You need 
>     to upgrade to the latest -CURRENT ( i.e. 4.x ).  The fixes will probably
>     go into -STABLE before the next release, but they are not in yet.

Nah, just read section 13.15 in the FreeBSD FAQ. Beware that in
FreeBSD 3.x, changing the kvm size will break BSDI binary
compatibility.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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