I roll with a value of 262140 and I still think that's conservative. peter
On May 22, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Konrad Neuwirth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we are currently facing severe problems with nmbclusters on a NetBSD 6.0 > generic system (amd64). We're running short of nmbclusters, and I do not > understand how I can increase them. > > sysctl kern.mbuf.nmbclusters > kern.mbuf.nmbclusters = 16384 > > I see that this number is both derived at boot time (writing another value > into the kernel has no effect), but I also cannot turn that knob. The only > value that doesn't lead to an 'invalid argument' error is 16384. I have no > idea what a better value is, but we've outages of up to ten minutes that take > down all network interfaces on that system (and we're at six networking > interfaces, one with three vlans -- and they're mostly well-used). > > So: What can I do to get that value up, to make the system more stable? > > Thank you, > Konrad
