On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Tom T. Thai wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jukka Marin wrote:
> 
> > I want to improve performance of a largish news server which has 80 MB
> > of RAM.  According to options(4), I have to set options NBUF and/or
> > BUFPAGES.  However, there is no information of the range of these
> > constants - not even in the sample kerne config files.
> > 
> > I'm building a NetBSD 1.3.2 kernel.  How should I set these constants?
> 
> maxusers        200             # estimated number of users
> options         NMBCLUSTERS=4096
> options         BUFPAGES=4096   # 16MB for disk buffering
> options         NBUF=4096
> 

This is helpfull but a maxusers of 200 (anything over 64) on 1.3
and I think 1.3.1 gives a warning message, has this been fixed on
1.3.2

Does anyone know what ranges can be used for the various option
before design limits are met ?

--Sean