port-alpha: Re: Realistic NMBCLUSTERS limit?

Subject: Re: Realistic NMBCLUSTERS limit?
To: Tom Haapanen <tomh@metrics.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/09/2000 20:21:27

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:05:09AM -0500, Tom Haapanen wrote:
> Our web server (164SX/533, 256 MB, NetBSD 1.4.1) got these early this
> morning and promptly fell off the network:
> 
> Mar  9 01:57:37 stratos /netbsd: WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase
> NMBCLUSTERS 
> Mar  9 01:59:10 stratos /netbsd: WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase
> NMBCLUSTERS
> 
> How do I determine what my current NMBCLUSTERS is actually set to?  How high
> should I set it to be safe?

sysctl kern.mbuf.nmbclusters
I think you can increase it dynamically with a 'sysctl -w'.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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