From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 6 14:58:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6C714EF2 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id XAA57675; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 23:55:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Arjan de Vet , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing both NBUF and NMBCLUSTERS leads to panics References: <199904061651.SAA11984@adv.iae.nl> <199904061806.LAA09677@apollo.backplane.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 06 Apr 1999 23:55:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:06:27 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes: > :Besides increasing the NBUF parameter I also want to increase > :NMBCLUSTERS of course because the machine will handle quite some network > :traffic. But for some reason increasing both NBUF and NMBCLUSTERS only > :leads to panics :-(. > > The problem is that insufficient KVM is being reserved. You need > to upgrade to the latest -CURRENT ( i.e. 4.x ). The fixes will probably > go into -STABLE before the next release, but they are not in yet. Nah, just read section 13.15 in the FreeBSD FAQ. Beware that in FreeBSD 3.x, changing the kvm size will break BSDI binary compatibility. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message