From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 6: 4:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.reptiles.org (mailbox.reptiles.org [198.96.117.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853B437B9D7 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 06:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@reptiles.org) Received: from localhost (1262 bytes) by mailbox.reptiles.org via sendmail with P:stdio/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:03:59 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.108 1999-Sep-19 #3 built 1999-Oct-27) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:03:59 -0400 From: Jim Mercer To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD-3.4, full bgp routing, maxusers, NMBCLUSTERS Message-ID: <20000403090358.K10147@reptiles.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i've got a server that has the sole purpose of routing packters between 4 100mbit interfaces. the server is running 3.4-stable. it has 128M RAM, and according to top, it isn't using much more than 80M. i'm using zebra to do full BGP routing with 2 peers. netstat -rn shows some 75,000 routes. i've got: maxusers 32 options NMBCLUSTERS=10000 vmstat -m shows: routetbl 154337 21118K 21118K 21118K 237725 0 0 16,32,64,128,256 Memory Totals: In Use Free Requests 21842K 47K 249883 how do i increase the amount of RAM for the kernel? i thought NMBCLUSTERS was the one, but i guess not. any recommendations? -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message