Sunday, March 24, 2002, 12:28:41 AM, you wrote:

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JS> Whenever I install a new NetBSD system and accidentally forget to compile
JS> a new kernel with higher NMBCLUSTERS defined (or am just too lazy), the
JS> machine will always eventually start hitting the mbuf limit. And then
JS> the machine needs to be rebooted just to increase the value because it
JS> is not even a sysctl...

It áctually is a sysctl...

# sysctl kern.mbuf.nmbclusters
kern.mbuf.nmbclusters = 2048

or you can patch your kernel without recompiling (only needs rebooting):

# gdb --write /netbsd
(gdb) set nmbclusters=2048
(gdb) quit

-Tomas