mbuf allocation on FreeBSD 6.x

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Nov 21 07:54:50 PST 2007


In the last episode (Nov 21), Jay Aikat said:
> 	I recall being able to set kern.ipc.nmbufs in the older
> versions of FreeBSD. How do we set the same in 6.x - it does not seem
> to exist.  Or maybe there is a different way to manage mbufs?

According to the mbuf manpage, as of FreeBSD 5.3 mbufs are just regular
kernel-malloced memory and have no hard limit apart from available
memory.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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