From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 23:15: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5254414EF0 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA25203; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905010611.XAA25203@implode.root.com> To: Bryce Newall Cc: Doug White , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: No buffer space In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:58:55 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:11:59 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Doug White wrote: > >> Be careful playing with NMBCLUSTERS, you can cause odd panics and other >> problems if you put them too high and run the kernel out of memory. > >I had MAXUSERS set too high, and it was causing some "odd" problems, like >spontaneous reboots, so we backed it down a bit. > >> 6000 is a little high for a normal server. > >I agree, although we're not a "normal server" by far. :) One of our web >sites gets over 500 hits per minute during peak times. With that in mind, >do you think it's worth upping NMBCLUSTERS a bit? Set it to 12000, with maxusers at 150. You should also upgrade your sources to 3.x-stable. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message