You can increase the maximum number of clusters in /usr/src/sys/sys/sysctl.h and recompile the kernel. But make sure that you have a stable kernel image ready, just in case you increase this value so much that your kernel doesn't boot ;)
I guess the default value is around 9, while for 256MB mem, you can go upto maybe 10000 clusters. Pavan Balaji, Intel Corporation "Only the Paranoid Survive" -- Andy Grove > -----Original Message----- > From: James Snow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Number of mbuf clusters (NMBCLUSTERS) > > > Funny that you should post this at exactly the same time > that I was beginning to look for other instances of the > 'mbuf clusters exhausted' message. > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:56:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm seeing a bit of problem with my FreeBSD 4.6 stable server. > > Me: > > FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE. > > > My server: FreeBSD 4.6 Stable, Intel P3 933 / 256M Memory / > a pair of > > 60G IDE drives (Seagate ATA IV). NIC: Intel EtherExpress 100+ > > NFS export. > > Me: > > dc0: <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> > > > Jul 12 09:28:54 nile /kernel: All mbuf clusters exhausted, > > please see tuning(7). > > I got a bunch of these yesterday, while scp'ing files to > this machine. > > > The drive is hooked up to a Promise PCI ATA/UDMA 100 > > controller card. > > The drive I was writing to is controlled by: > > atapci1: <Promise ATA100 controller> > > Curious.... > > > -Snow > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message