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 >=3D 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 plannin= g >>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. >=20 > On wcarchive, maxusers is 1000 and NMBCLUSTERS is 100000. Don't try th= at > at > home, folks, without kernel modifications. > With the change to increase the kernel VM in 3.2, you should be able t= o > crank both up significantly. I can't say how much without doing a careful > analysis of KVM usage. >=20 > -DG I have read that if you have needs that would require turning up NMBcluste= rs, and certain sysctl options, etc, that you should do so independantly and no= t increase maxusers up much above 256. Will that recomendation change with 3.= 2 as well? Thanks Nicole >=20 > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.= org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.c= om >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message |\ __ /| (`\ =20 | o_o |__ ) ) =20 // \\ =20 nicole@nmhtech.com | http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | http://www.dangermouse.org -------------------------(((---(((----------------------- =20 - Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD - - Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman - =20 - 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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