On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Steven Ames wrote:
> Could someone define what NMBCLUSTERS is and what it is used for? I've
> seen a lot of cases where increasing it (beyond the default 1024?) has
> helped systems be more stable, but what is it?
>
Here is an informative email from David Greenman:
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 12 08:07:20 1999
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:58:06 -0700
From: David Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Nicole Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: maxusers/nmbclusters
> I have read that if you have needs that would require turning up NMBclusters,
>and certain sysctl options, etc, that you should do so independantly and not
>increase maxusers up much above 256. Will that recomendation change with 3.2 as
>well?
If you specify NMBCLUSTERS, then you only need to tune maxusers for
increased number of processes (nproc = 16 * maxusers). This is true in all
versions of FreeBSD.
-DG
David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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> -Steve
>
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