Date: 17 Mar 1999 07:12:02 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: evil maxusers Message-ID: <xzpu2vkk5l9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "17 Mar 1999 03:20:15 %2B0100" References: <199903160216.VAA24377@cs.rpi.edu> <xzp6780luw0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> writes: > Because mbufs eat memory, and the kernel has a limited address space. > If I'm not mistaken, setting maxusers to 320 eats up to 90 MB in mbuf > clusters alone, which is almost half the kernel address space. Foo, I made a braino. Mbuf clusters are 16 mbufs long, not 16 kB (or rather, they're 2048 bytes long which happens to be 16 times the size of a regular mbuf) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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