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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:46:42 +0200
From:      Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
To:        Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nmbclusters and nmbufs
Message-ID:  <20030819124642.GG13873@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0308191153290.9451-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.33.0308191153290.9451-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:53:57AM +0400, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anybody advise me please if I want to increase nmbclusters option in
> kernel, can I just type
> 	sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384"
> without rebooting the server, or is the only way to set the NMBCLUSTERS
> option in kernel, install the new kernel and reboot?

These variable are normaly readonly, so I think you do need to reboot.

> 
> And secondly, also I need to increase nmbufs kernel option, but there
> seems to be no such option in LINT, what should I tweak?
> 	sysctl kern.ipc.nmbufs="32768" without rebooting
> or
> 	kern.ipc.nmbufs="32768" in /boot/loader.conf and reboot?

It does exist: options         NMBUFS=4096.

You seen to be low on a lot of resources. It could be an idee to set 
``maxusers'' to a higher setting. These days a lot of varibles base 
there value on maxusers.

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/



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