Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:05:41 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Matthew M Groener <matt@xlrn.ucsb.edu>, "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: out of mbuf crash Message-ID: <199710151905.MAA08549@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:35:11 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971015102806.21509C-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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> >On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Studded wrote: > >> nmbclusters kernel option. I've raised it to 15000 on a 2.2.1 system. > > nmbclusters are statically allocated. Pre-allocating 15000 will consume >a LOT of RAM. That isn't true. The virtual address space is pre-allocated, but the mbuf clusters aren't allocated until they are needed. The memory they consume after being allocated is never freed back to the system for general use, however. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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