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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:11:59 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: No buffer space 
Message-ID:  <199905010611.XAA25203@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:58:55 PDT." <Pine.NEB.4.10.9904302157420.431-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org> 

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>On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Doug White wrote:
>
>> Be careful playing with NMBCLUSTERS, you can cause odd panics and other
>> problems if you put them too high and run the kernel out of memory.
>
>I had MAXUSERS set too high, and it was causing some "odd" problems, like
>spontaneous reboots, so we backed it down a bit.
>
>> 6000 is a little high for a normal server.
>
>I agree, although we're not a "normal server" by far. :)  One of our web
>sites gets over 500 hits per minute during peak times.  With that in mind,
>do you think it's worth upping NMBCLUSTERS a bit?

   Set it to 12000, with maxusers at 150. You should also upgrade your sources
to 3.x-stable.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com


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