Re: nmbclusters on amd64

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 09:36:06AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> I get that, but setting NMBCLUSTERS now limits nmbclusters to some number
> below the computed limit. With -5 and earlier it raised it from a low limit
> (1024 if GATEWAY was set) and so it was pretty much required for any
> sensible work. I guess the take-home message is now "NMBCLUSTERS is bad, do
> not use it".

Well, if you ask for a lower limit, you get what you asked for :) But
yes, with newer kernels there is normally no need for setting
NMBCLUSTERS.

Joerg