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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Brian O'Shea <boshea@ricochet.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Tuning the 4.1-R kernel for networking
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* Brian O'Shea <boshea@ricochet.net> [010808 13:55] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:55:47PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> [...]
> > Your system isn't configured for high network throughput, you
> > want to put something like:
> > 
> > kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768
> > 
> > this might also help:
> > net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize=32768
> > 
> > put those into /boot/loader.conf
> 
> So to clarify, if I just add these lines as-is to /boot/loader.conf,
> these sysctl variables will be set on the next boot?
> 
> The current contents of loader.conf on this system is:
> 
> # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
> userconfig_script_load="YES"

yessir.

In fact in 4.4 you can futz with maxusers in the same way.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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