From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 18 12:19:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37EC437B405; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6IJIp626655; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:18:51 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Mike Silbersack , Matt Dillon , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet tcp_usrreq.c Message-ID: <20010718121851.B26558@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org References: <200107132212.f6DMC3870963@earth.backplane.com> <20010714221719.K30721-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20010718081804.A96027@technokratis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010718081804.A96027@technokratis.com>; from bmilekic@technokratis.com on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:18:04AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moving to arch] On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:18:04AM -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: > Well, there is a general misunderstanding going around here. Maxusers > is merely a *HINT* on the amount of KVA space to reserve for the mbuf maps. It > is easily overriden by merely defining NMBCLUSTERS. The only `bogon' is that > NMBCLUSTERS implicitly also defines the number of mbufs. Presently, NMBUFS > gets defined to NMBCLUSTERS * 4, which may or may not be too much, depending > on whether you're using some of Bill Pauls gigE drivers or if your particular > application puts sf_bufs to good use. So do you feel these numbers are not the best for today? > In any case, both NMBUFS and NMBCLUSTERS can be easily overriden with > the respective boot-time tunable parameters. And remember, these values are > merely used to reserve KVA space. BUT they should be pretty reasonable numbers to start with. People continue to "benchmark" FreeBSD out of the box. We need to start paying more attention to the out-of-the-box settings. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message