Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:20:32 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, Christian Jachmann <jachmann@gigabell.net> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.4-Stable crashes..(heavy diskio+networking) Message-ID: <v04220804b4ff0562dfc6@[194.78.238.239]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003221729320.7534-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003221729320.7534-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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At 5:32 PM -0500 2000/3/22, Matt Heckaman wrote: > This may sound silly, but have you looked at the value for your > NMBCLUSTERS? FreeBSD panics when it runs out of them, as can happen in a > high network load situation. I scale mine based on the bandwidth and > assume a worst case scenario of a denial of service attack. I've found > 16,384 good for T1+, moving to double that for 10Mbit, as for beyond that, > I've never worked with anything that high. At the bottom of his kernel config, he's got: options NMBCLUSTERS=26112 This would seem to beat your 16384 (which also happens to be the value I use in our news peering server running 3.2-RELEASE, although we're running Diablo and not INN and we're not doing the volumes of traffic he is). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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