Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:01:40 +0400 (MSD) From: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nmbclusters and nmbufs Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0308191657290.23624-100000@apache.metrocom.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030819124642.GG13873@dds.nl>
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > Can anybody advise me please if I want to increase nmbclusters option in > > kernel, can I just type > > sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384" > > without rebooting the server, or is the only way to set the NMBCLUSTERS > > option in kernel, install the new kernel and reboot? > > These variable are normaly readonly, so I think you do need to reboot. > > > > > And secondly, also I need to increase nmbufs kernel option, but there > > seems to be no such option in LINT, what should I tweak? > > sysctl kern.ipc.nmbufs="32768" without rebooting > > or > > kern.ipc.nmbufs="32768" in /boot/loader.conf and reboot? > > It does exist: options NMBUFS=4096. Yes, but I guess I must have said that the system version is 4.5 and this options didn't exist then. > > You seen to be low on a lot of resources. It could be an idee to set > ``maxusers'' to a higher setting. These days a lot of varibles base > there value on maxusers. > Maxusers is already set to a high value, but due to the extensive network activity nmbufs and nmbclusters seemed to be lacking. Thank you for the advices. > -- > Alex > > Articles based on solutions that I use: > http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ > ---- Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax)
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