Subject: Re: increasing NMBCLUSTERS
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/28/2005 19:52:17
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:10:31PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a file server, which regularly becomes unresponsive (via network,
> normally responsive via console) and displays numerous warnings in the
> logs:
> 
> WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase NMBCLUSTERS
> 
> I've already bumped NMBCLUSTERS twice, up to 65536 now.  options(4) is
> not very exhaustive of what the side effects (if any) may be of
> increasing this number.  How far can I bump this number?  What is
> affected by it?

Did you see what could be using that much clusters ?
Usually it's in socket buffers, netstat -a will shows this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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