>> No. The only result that doesn't produce an Invalid argument is … 16384. >> >> What can I do? >> >> This is a NetBSD/i386 machine with 2GB physical RAM. > > Probably you are hitting hard limits in the code. I would look through > the kernel source. Beware that just increasing the NMBCLUSTERS without > also increasing kernel virtual address space is likely to lead to KVA > exhaustion, which is not pretty, and manifests itself as a machine which > is not quite crashed but won't do much.
So would this problem be remedied if I switched the system from i386 to amd64? Would the limits be more to my tastes, or do they behave similarly under the same memory conditions? I still do not quite get it to fit in my head that we didn't have the problem with NetBSD 5; we could just set the NMBCLUSTERS to something quite bigger there and be happy. Thank you Konrad
