[email protected] (Konrad Neuwirth) writes: >I did. We are running the new kernel now, and it contains the following: >options NKMEMPAGES=98352 >options NMBCLUSTERS=262140 >I verified that this is actually the kernel that is live.
>But: >| pinie# sysctl kern.mbuf >| kern.mbuf.msize = 256 >| kern.mbuf.mclbytes = 2048 >| kern.mbuf.nmbclusters = 16384 >| kern.mbuf.mblowat = 16 >| kern.mbuf.mcllowat = 8 There are several limits. - 1/4 of physical memory - 1/4 of kernel memory for architectures that require it for mbufs - architecture specific kernel option NMBCLUSTERS_MAX (16384 for i386) - kernel option NMBCLUSTERS I'm not sure if NMBCLUSTERS_MAX is still correct for i386 but the rationale is that kernel address space is limited. Greetings,
