Re: kern.ipc.nmbclusters

From: Bill Moran (wmoran_at_potentialtech.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:45:31 -0400
To: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>

    "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote:

    > I have a machine that is rebooting with the following error:
    >
    > "All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7)."
    >
    > Which through google and man tuning I was able to figure out that indeed,
    > mbufs were exhausted. So I tried to set kern.ipc.nmbclusters=4096 (which
    > should cover the load of the server), but found out after it is not a
    > run-time tunable parameter.
    >
    > I searched google, and gathered that I should put this setting in
    > /boot/loader.conf.
    >
    > This is contradictory of me usually putting kernel tweaks in
    > /etc/sysctl.conf.
    >
    > >From your experience, where is the best place to load this variable from,
    > why is it a better location, and what will happen if I don't load it from
    > the proper place?

    You have to put it in loader.conf because that value is set _very_ early
    in the boot process (before sysctl.conf is used) and can not be changed
    later.

    You can also put this value in your kernel config and recompile your kernel. 

    -- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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