Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:16:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> Subject: Re: maxusers/nmbclusters Message-ID: <XFMail.990517161659.nicole@nmhtech.com> In-Reply-To: <199905152052.NAA13650@implode.root.com>
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On 15-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That David Greenman wrote: >>For those running -stable in heavy production use: >> >>Anyone running maxusers > 128? >>Anyone setting nmbclusters >= 8192? >> >>I have a 2.2.8 system with maxusers set to 512 and nmbclusters set to >>8192, and I'm *still* in need of more resources (e.g., a panic induced >>yesterday by "Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers!"). I was planning >>on moving (through a reinstall, actually) to 3.x-stable, but I want to be >>sure I'm not chomping off more than can be chewed. I know about the >>panics various people have seen - I'm confident that'll be cleaned up. >>I'm more concerned about posts I've seen recently claiming "you shouldn't >>push maxusers > 128 on 3.x-stable" - I just wanted to know if this was >>dependent on any factors I could mitigate. > > On wcarchive, maxusers is 1000 and NMBCLUSTERS is 100000. Don't try that > at > home, folks, without kernel modifications. > With the change to increase the kernel VM in 3.2, you should be able to > crank both up significantly. I can't say how much without doing a careful > analysis of KVM usage. > > -DG I have read that if you have needs that would require turning up NMBclusters, and certain sysctl options, etc, that you should do so independantly and not increase maxusers up much above 256. Will that recomendation change with 3.2 as well? Thanks Nicole > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ nicole@nmhtech.com | http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | http://www.dangermouse.org -------------------------(((---(((----------------------- - Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD - - Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman - - I'm not ADD - I'm just Multithreaded - - Microsoft: What bug would you like today? - ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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