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Re: nmbclusters on amd64
netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost (Stephen Borrill) writes:
>Machine in question has 16GB RAM and is running amd64.
You said i386.
>Reading further, it
>looks like setting NMBCLUSTERS in netbsd-7 as a compile-time
>option is only capable of limiting the number which is generally
>counterproductive:
If the default is 25% of RAM (4GB) it's not really an issue.
Your intentional limit of 32768 clusters is just 64MB, you can
raise that a lot until you reach the real limit.
>Perhaps this should have been MAX(max_size, NMBCLUSTERS) which makes more
>sense to me.
The value needs to be clamped to something useful. 25% of RAM isn't bad.
AIX limits network buffers to 50% of RAM ("the wall").
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