From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 15:54:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B4E16A421 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:54:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0758D13C458 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:54:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id lALFsdXH028165; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:54:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:54:38 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jay Aikat Message-ID: <20071121155438.GA98826@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4744250F.4030809@email.unc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4744250F.4030809@email.unc.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mbuf allocation on FreeBSD 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:54:50 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 21), Jay Aikat said: > I recall being able to set kern.ipc.nmbufs in the older > versions of FreeBSD. How do we set the same in 6.x - it does not seem > to exist. Or maybe there is a different way to manage mbufs? According to the mbuf manpage, as of FreeBSD 5.3 mbufs are just regular kernel-malloced memory and have no hard limit apart from available memory. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com