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

[Andre Oppermann]

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?

-- 
Andre