From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 13:43:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A4916A40F for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:43:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrs@cisco.com) Received: from sj-iport-5.cisco.com (sj-iport-5.cisco.com [171.68.10.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825D913C44B for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:43:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrs@cisco.com) Received: from sj-dkim-4.cisco.com ([171.71.179.196]) by sj-iport-5.cisco.com with ESMTP; 18 Jan 2007 05:43:35 -0800 Received: from sj-core-5.cisco.com (sj-core-5.cisco.com [171.71.177.238]) by sj-dkim-4.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l0IDhX39009033 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:43:33 -0800 Received: from xbh-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-211.cisco.com [171.70.151.144]) by sj-core-5.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l0IDhUV0021750 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:43:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from xfe-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com ([171.70.151.174]) by xbh-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:43:30 -0800 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([171.68.225.134]) by xfe-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:43:29 -0800 Message-ID: <45AF7962.7040407@cisco.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:42:58 -0500 From: Randall Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061029 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net References: <45AF55DE.1070700@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <45AF55DE.1070700@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jan 2007 13:43:29.0997 (UTC) FILETIME=[A35CF7D0:01C73B06] DKIM-Signature: v=0.5; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=840; t=1169127813; x=1169991813; c=relaxed/simple; s=sjdkim4002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=rrs@cisco.com; z=From:=20Randall=20Stewart=20 |Subject:=20Re=3A=20mbuf=20large=20clusters |Sender:=20; bh=q5gQFIAsTMxQxMPYMILCkEAsLDd4Tx8UbzEX3pU0KoU=; b=kdJzlCH4y9cwiitnoiaIa04cmFt65QlBztxYTghDRKfx4kyNFZephGMw0wFFhiR8XfwcsXd2 AhMWMn2e+qw88lNZp+/GiyiucElS12bTLhejroYbrhpY3MJerNyQY+h7; Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-4; header.From=rrs@cisco.com; dkim=pass (sig from cisco.com/sjdkim4002 verified; ); Subject: Re: mbuf large clusters X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:43:35 -0000 Moving this question over to net.. since I think it belongs there :-) Oh, and looking at the sysctl to tune the 4/9 and 16k clusters.. it does NOT work. If I set it in the sysctl.conf by the time that is read its to late.. So.. a) Should we have a default and b) Does anyone mind if I fix this and put sysctl process type things in (like regular clusters have) so the limit will actually have some effect? Andre? R Randall Stewart wrote: > Question: > > I see that the 2k clusters are defaulted in > tunable_mbinit() > to: > > nmbclusters = 1024 + maxusers * 64; > > But there are NO limits what so ever set on the > larger clusters... > > Any particular reason why that is so? > > R -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 803-317-4952 (cell)