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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On 2003-04-08 20:54, jonr@destar.net wrote:
> I did as you suggested and both nmbclusters and nmbufs were maxed out,
> well nmbclusters was about 3 clusters shy of maxxing out. I went into
> my /boot/defaults/loader.conf and changed the nmbclusters to =4096 and
> rebooted. Should this setting have been added to the kernel and
> recompiled or is setting it in the loader.conf alright also?

Should be fine...  there's very little difference (if any) between
setting tunables through the loader and compiling them into the kernel
image that you boot.

- Giorgos