From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 8 15:18:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (207-167-15-66.dsl.worldgate.ca [207.167.15.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E4237B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:18:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id eA8NIHN25708; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:18:17 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011082318.eA8NIHN25708@orthanc.ab.ca> To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:22:18 EST." Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:18:16 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "scanner" == writes: scanner> So one could go as high as.. 512? 1024? There has to scanner> still be drawbacks at some number where your wasting scanner> resources that you dont need just to get more mbuf's. I scanner> think that is why they are saying dont just jack up scanner> MAXUSERS. Use the NMBCLUSTERS=XXXX instead. Because that scanner> is usually the variable you want increased not the other scanner> parameters MAXUSERS increases. FWIW I run our NFS server with NMBCLUSTERS=10000. It doesn't burn that much additional memory. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message