* Paul B. Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020610 14:13]: > 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.
We have NMBCLUSTERS=8192 on OpenBSD 3.1 without any problems. Haven't tried to go any higher though. The OpenBSD FAQ says: "A reasonable value on the i386 port with most 100Mbps ethernet interfaces (no matter how many the machine has) is 8192." David
