Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:37:09 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ping Yuan <yuanpinghh@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting buffer size. Message-ID: <20000827113709.C1209@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000827174129.15742.qmail@web1607.mail.yahoo.com>; from yuanpinghh@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 10:41:29AM -0700 References: <20000827174129.15742.qmail@web1607.mail.yahoo.com>
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* Ping Yuan <yuanpinghh@yahoo.com> [000827 10:34] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am now using Freebsd 3.2 as a router. I noticed that
> when the router was busy, more packets would be
> dropped. What I want to do is to have a larger buffer
> size, then, less packets will be dropped.
>
> It seems freeBSD should have a configuration of its
> total buffer size. Can you point me to this code?
>
> Thanks in advance,
See "man loader"
kern.ipc.nmbclusters
Set the number of mbuf clusters to be allocated. The
value cannot be set below the default determined when
the kernel was compiled. Modifies NMBCLUSTERS.
-Alfred
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