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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:40:44 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Xiaowei Yang <yxw@mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to set nmbufs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008171339370.17282-100000@achilles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008171440.KAA17967@cordelia.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Xiaowei Yang wrote:

> Greetings, everyone,
> 
> I am doing some simulation that needs to allocate as many nmbufs as
> possible. I could not figure out how to set nmbufs to be the maximum
> value allowd by my physical memory. I tired to mannual set it to be a
> huge number, for example, 128MB/128B=1M (I have 196M memory) and used
> netstat -m to monitor the real allocated nmbufs. However, when it
> reached some value lower that a 1M, a kernel page fault happened.

Use options NMBCLUSTERS in your kernel config file to set it.  See
LINT/NOTES for usage examples.  The number of nmbufs will be 4x what you
set this value to.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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