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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:09:40 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aio_read kills machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910120807320.3838-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199910112202.RAA04761@virtual-voodoo.com>

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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Steven Ames wrote:

> Could someone define what NMBCLUSTERS is and what it is used for? I've
> seen a lot of cases where increasing it (beyond the default 1024?) has 
> helped systems be more stable, but what is it?
> 

Here is an informative email from David Greenman:

----snip----
From dg@root.com Tue Oct 12 08:07:20 1999
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:58:06 -0700
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com>
Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>
Subject: Re: maxusers/nmbclusters 

> I have read that if you have needs that would require turning up NMBclusters,
>and certain sysctl options, etc, that you should do so independantly and not
>increase maxusers up much above 256. Will that recomendation change with 3.2 as
>well?

   If you specify NMBCLUSTERS, then you only need to tune maxusers for
increased number of processes (nproc = 16 * maxusers). This is true in all
versions of FreeBSD.

-DG

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

> -Steve
> 

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
  




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