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On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 01:15, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 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

Thanks again Girogos! Sometimes we just need a little hand holding. :)
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Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net>