svn commit: r242847 - in head/sys: i386/include kern

[Andrey Zonov]

On 11/18/12 6:13 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> On 18.11.2012 15:05, Andrey Zonov wrote:
>> On 11/11/12 3:04 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>> On 10.11.2012 23:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>> On 11/10/12 11:18 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>>>> On 10.11.2012 19:04, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>>>>> This is complicated but we need a simple user visible view of it.  It
>>>>>> really needs to be something like "nmbclusters defaults to 6% of
>>>>>> physical ram, with machine dependent limits".  The MD limits are bad
>>>>>> enough, and using bogo-units like "maxusers" just makes it worse.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that would be optimal.
>>>>>
>>>> No it would not.
>>>>
>>>> I used to be able to tell people "hey just try increasing maxusers"
>>>> and they would and suddenly the
>>>> box would be OK.
>>>>
>>>> Now I'll have to remember 3,4,5,10,20x tunable to increase?
>>>
>>> No.  The whole mbuf and cluster stuff isn't allocated or reserved
>>> at boot time.  We simply need a limit to prevent it from exhausting
>>> all available kvm / physical memory whichever is less.
>>>
>>
>> For now, we have limit which does not allow to run even one igb(4) NIC
>> in 9k jumbo configuration.
> 
> My patch for mbuf* zone auto-sizing does fix that, or not?
> 

Are you talking about r242910?  I have not tried it.

-- 
Andrey Zonov

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