From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 09:04:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD15E16A41F for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:04:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff@sailorfej.net) Received: from mail.sailorfej.net (mail.sailorfej.net [65.102.14.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC6F43D46 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:04:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff@sailorfej.net) Received: from [192.168.150.40] (doorwarden.sailorfej.net [65.102.14.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.sailorfej.net (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0A94Pru011534 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:04:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@sailorfej.net) Message-ID: <43C37894.7000302@sailorfej.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:04:20 -0800 From: Jeffrey Williams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.85.1/1235/Sun Jan 8 10:13:01 2006 on mail.sailorfej.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: fbsd6 and mbufs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:04:30 -0000 Absolute BSD, in the Tweaking Kernel Performance section of chapter 4, recommends increasing the number of mbufs for high network servers, by setting the NMBCLUSTERS option in the kernel. Is this still a good idea/possible in 6 stable, and if so is there a sysctl variable for it, or does it still need to be done in a custom kernel? Thanks Jeff