Subject: Re: WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase NMBCLUSTERS
To: Joseph A. Dacuma <jadacuma@ched.gov.ph>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/27/2005 19:38:09
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:38:59PM +0800, Joseph A. Dacuma wrote:
> > Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> >> What does it mean if dmesg says this...
> >>
> >> WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase NMBCLUSTERS
> >
> > Never mind, I found it in the FAQ. Silly me. Pardon.
> >
> > Anybody have an idea what the NMBCLUSTERS default is
> > for the new NetBSD 3.0?
> >
>
> On a newly installed i386 machine its 1MB. Where my sysctl result is:
> kern.mbuf.nmbclusters=1024
It's not 1MB. It's the number of mbuf clusters, not the size of some memory
item (the max size allowed in this case is 1024 * sizeof(mbuf cluster),
where sizeof(mbuf cluster) is usually 2k).
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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