From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 14:21:11 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 14:21:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE0637B400; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB3MN0m00396; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 23:23:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 23:23:00 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: NSFBUFS in kernel config Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sirs. Can anyone explain what options NSFBUFS=1024 or =4096 means? I played around with this option and on a 64MBytes machine, pushing it to 1024 caused a heavy swapping so I commented out this option to avoid it. What is a reasonable value for a server system under heavy load and what for a client, maybe a diskless one? Thanks in advance, Oliver - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 Tel: +496131/3924152 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message