From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 6 19:18:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC95215252 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA11786; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:46:48 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA13088; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:46:48 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990407114647.A2142@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:46:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:55:58PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 6 April 1999 at 23:55:58 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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. I thought that had been fixed again. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message