In some email I received from Paul B. Henson, sie wrote: > > from research on this mailing list and others, it seems it is very common > to have to increase the default value of NMBCLUSTERS under a heavy load. > most often, it seems to have been increased to 8192 or 16384. > > Unfortunately, under openBSD 3.1, any attempt to increase NMBCLUSTERS over > 4096 results in a kernel panic at boot. > > I inquired about this problem and requested assistance on one of the > OpenBSD mailing lists. the prevailing sentiment seemed to be "don't tweak > kernel variables" and "you deserve what you get if you do". I'm under no > delusion of entitlement, but I really expected more from the OpenBSD > community. > > In any case, I was wondering if anyone has placed an OpenBSD 3.1 firewall > under heavy load yet. I have done some limited testing, but my test > environment is not sufficient to completely emulate the production load. I > really don't want to put a firewall into production that runs out of a > critical network resource which I am then unable to increase. I have 2 GB > of RAM in this machine -- I would much rather have unused buffers than ever > run out.
The best advice here is to just use another OS, if you feel that uncomfortable with OpenBSD. Darren
