From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 14 15:29:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98F737B401 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-228.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3062743EC2 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3D966BE3; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A87CE13AD; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:27 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Josh Brooks Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NMBCLUSTERS over 4096 dangerous in any way ? Message-ID: <20021214232927.GA28068@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021214231934.GA27873@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021214152220.I77087-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021214152220.I77087-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:24:09PM -0800, Josh Brooks wrote: >=20 > Ok, understood - that answers my question and the one I just posted. >=20 > So ... in 4.4 KVA space was, by default ... I forget ? So I guess my > question has now morphed into: >=20 > - if the machine is doing nothing but firewalling (so there are no other > demands on KVM/KVA) how high can you set NMBCLUSTERS to before you start > to get close to the default KVA in fbsd 4.4 ? >=20 > (actually I think the default is the same in all 4.x, just the method of > changing it is different) I think the bottom line is that a) You appear to need more NMBCLUSTERS to handle the demands on your machine, so b) you should try increasing them, but c) if the machine starts to panic from resource shortages then you know you either increased them too much, need to tune other resource usage to allow the higher NMBCLUSTERS value, or need a bigger machine :) Kris --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9+77XWry0BWjoQKURAjspAKCsui7flmGwMMOg5w5oh5rLU4OMZQCfdKb+ kBeJ1e81FKC+lWLlVzyx/Dc= =o/KF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message