From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 14:53:22 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 4495C16A407 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E275E13C44C for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from circe ([134.130.3.36]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JC2000V0H8XVV60@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from talos.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.22]) by circe (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8/8.13.1/1) with ESMTP id l0IDrKCk005416; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:20 +0100 Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1H7Xhg-0005xC-Kj; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:20 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 321983F41B; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:20 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <45AF7962.7040407@cisco.com> To: Randall Stewart Message-id: <20070118135319.GB1874@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <45AF55DE.1070700@cisco.com> <45AF7962.7040407@cisco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-net 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 14:53:22 -0000 --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:42:58AM -0500, Randall Stewart wrote: > Moving this question over to net.. since I think > it belongs there :-) >=20 > Oh, and looking at the sysctl to tune the > 4/9 and 16k clusters.. it does NOT work. >=20 > If I set it in the sysctl.conf by the > time that is read its to late.. >=20 Not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but kern.ipc.nmbclusters is a tunable not a sysctl, so it has to be set in /boot/loader.conf or at the loader prompt (see loader(8)). - Christian > So.. >=20 > 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? >=20 > Andre? >=20 > R >=20 >=20 > Randall Stewart wrote: > >Question: > > > >I see that the 2k clusters are defaulted in > >tunable_mbinit() > >to: > > > >nmbclusters =3D 1024 + maxusers * 64; > > > >But there are NO limits what so ever set on the > >larger clusters... > > > >Any particular reason why that is so? > > > >R >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Randall Stewart > NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. > 803-345-0369 803-317-4952 (cell) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFr3vPbHYXjKDtmC0RAuA0AJ4yTGv+Je3UFqS5+F5MfDpdpweEbACgy0KO S50KW2wF74yTts1sT4QIi/I= =1y8Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa--