It should autotune by default based on memory iirc.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 23:27 Peder Rovelstad <provels...@comcast.net> wrote:

> FWiW - My nano (4 NICs, 1GB, Community), PuTTY says:
>
> kern.ipc.nmbufs: 131925
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 20612
>
> but nothing explicitly set on the tunables page, just whatever's built in.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: List [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Karl Fife
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 4:02 PM
> To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <list@lists.pfsense.org>
> Subject: Re: [pfSense] Intel Atom C2758 (Rangeley/Avoton) install/boot
> failure with pfSense 2.3.2
>
> This is a good theory, because RRD data from 2.2.6 suggests that the
> difference in utilization between the versions is slight, and that we had
> 'barely' exhausted our system default allocation.
>
> Is there a difference between nano and full with respect to the installer
> explicitly setting tunables for kern.ipc.nmbclusters and kern.ipc.nmbuf?
> Vick Khera says he sees explicitly set tunables on his
> 2.3.2 system, yet my virgin installation of Nano pfSense 2.3.2 has no
> explicit declarations?
>
> Vick, is your Supermicro A1SRi-2758F running an installation that came from
> Netgate, or is it a community edition installation?  If the latter, Full or
> Nano?
>
>
> On 1/25/2017 3:49 PM, Jim Pingle wrote:
> > On 01/25/2017 01:10 PM, Karl Fife wrote:
> >> The piece that's still missing for me is that there must have been
> >> some change in default system setting for FreeBSD, or some other
> >> change between versions, because the system booted fine with pfSense
> >> v 2.2.6
> > Aside from what has already been suggested by others, it's possible
> > that the newer drivers from FreeBSD 10.3 in pfSense 2.3.x enabled
> > features on the NIC chipset that consumed more mbufs. For example, it
> > might be using more queues per NIC by default than it did previously.
> >
> > Jim
> >
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