12.13.2 Network Limits - updating to reflect the different settings between architectures (i386&amd64)

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 31 13:14:50 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:55:39AM +0200, claudiu vasadi wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Recently I was reading
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html(section
> 12.13.2. Network limits -
> NMBCLUSTERS) and I realised that there is no mention of amd64 and/or i386
> architecture. The limit for the i386 architecture is 32768 AFAIK but for
> amd64 it can go upto 65.000 and even more (according to memory I think).
> 
> I think that the docs should be updated a bit to reflect the different
> limits for each architecture.
> 

I think this may also be device-specific.  We should find that out
before updating the document.

Glen




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