In article <[email protected]>, 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
How much memory does the machine have? $sysctl -w kern.mbuf.nmbclusters=540000 kern.mbuf.nmbclusters: 524213 -> 540000 christos
