nmbclusters and nmbufs

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Tue Aug 19 01:36:41 PDT 2003


-questions material indeed.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, 11:53+0400, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anybody advise please if I want to increase nmbclusters option in
> kernel, can I just type
> 	sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384"
> without rebooting the server, or is the only way to set the NMBCLUSTERS
> option in kernel, install the new kernel and reboot?
>
> And secondly, also I need to increase nmbufs kernel option, but there
> seems to be no such option in LINT, what should I tweak?
> 	sysctl kern.ipc.nmbufs="32768" without rebooting
> or
> 	kern.ipc.nmbufs="32768" in /boot/loader.conf and reboot?

You need to put

kern.ipc.nmbclusters="xxx"
kern.ipc.nmbufs="yyy"

to /boot/loader.conf and reboot.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov, maxim at macomnet.ru, maxim at FreeBSD.org


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