SV: 4.8-STABLE Kernel Panic with dummynet options.

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:56:41PM +0200, Johan Christiansen wrote:
> >Anyway, NMBCLUSTERS and NSFBUFS maybe set at boot-time.
> >Remove them from kernel config file and just add two following lines into
> your /boot/loader.conf.local: kern.ipc.nmbclusters="32768"
> kern.ipc.nsfbufs="32768"
> 
> >AFAIK 1024 is very-very small value for NMBCLUSTERS.
> 
> 
> I tried to compile without the HZ and NMBCLUSTERS, and the machine now boots
> fine.
> Anyways the current kern.ipc.nmbclusters is 1232, reported by sysctl.
> What would you reccomend for a gateway/firewall machine on a 2Mbit/512Kbit
> DSL,
> With Approx. 20 simultaniously users?
> 
> Can i only set these values at boot time?

At this time you can set kern.ipc.nmbclusters and kern.ipc.nsfbufs
at boot time _only_.

> And what about the HZ value?

AFAIK its compile time option.
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