Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:20 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mbuf large clusters Message-ID: <20070118135319.GB1874@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <45AF7962.7040407@cisco.com> References: <45AF55DE.1070700@cisco.com> <45AF7962.7040407@cisco.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:42:58AM -0500, Randall Stewart wrote: > Moving this question over to net.. since I think > it belongs there :-) > > Oh, and looking at the sysctl to tune the > 4/9 and 16k clusters.. it does NOT work. > > If I set it in the sysctl.conf by the > time that is read its to late.. > Not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but kern.ipc.nmbclusters is a tunable not a sysctl, so it has to be set in /boot/loader.conf or at the loader prompt (see loader(8)). - Christian > So.. > > a) Should we have a default > and > b) Does anyone mind if I fix this and > put sysctl process type things in (like regular > clusters have) so the limit will actually have > some effect? > > Andre? > > R > > > Randall Stewart wrote: > >Question: > > > >I see that the 2k clusters are defaulted in > >tunable_mbinit() > >to: > > > >nmbclusters = 1024 + maxusers * 64; > > > >But there are NO limits what so ever set on the > >larger clusters... > > > >Any particular reason why that is so? > > > >R > > > -- > Randall Stewart > NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. > 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFr3vPbHYXjKDtmC0RAuA0AJ4yTGv+Je3UFqS5+F5MfDpdpweEbACgy0KO S50KW2wF74yTts1sT4QIi/I= =1y8Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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