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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-25 20:54:46 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-25 20:54:46 +0000
commitbe9f3249a90c2f9f59b5540b8239f2f365898ede (patch)
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parentcacafa9eb5b4d9a1ecbdbfdec9693af227cba76b (diff)
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Modify release note: larger buffer sizes might mean needing to
increase NMBCLUSTERS.
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml12
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml12
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 27c2ebb..37ff214 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -803,7 +803,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
default for both buffer sizes was 16K. To try to avoid
increasing congestion, the default value for
<varname>net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart_flightsize</varname> has
- been changed from infinity to 4. &merged;</para>
+ been changed from infinity to 4. &merged;
+ <note>
+ <para>On busy hosts, the new larger buffer sizes may require
+ manually increasing the
+ <varname>NMBCLUSTERS</varname> parameter, either in the
+ kernel configuration file or via the
+ <varname>kern.ipc.nmbclusters</varname> loader tunable.
+ <command>netstat -mb</command> can be used to monitor the
+ state of mbuf clusters.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
<para>TCP now supports RFC 1948 (Defending Against Sequence
Number Attacks). This functionality is controlled by the
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 27c2ebb..37ff214 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -803,7 +803,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
default for both buffer sizes was 16K. To try to avoid
increasing congestion, the default value for
<varname>net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart_flightsize</varname> has
- been changed from infinity to 4. &merged;</para>
+ been changed from infinity to 4. &merged;
+ <note>
+ <para>On busy hosts, the new larger buffer sizes may require
+ manually increasing the
+ <varname>NMBCLUSTERS</varname> parameter, either in the
+ kernel configuration file or via the
+ <varname>kern.ipc.nmbclusters</varname> loader tunable.
+ <command>netstat -mb</command> can be used to monitor the
+ state of mbuf clusters.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
<para>TCP now supports RFC 1948 (Defending Against Sequence
Number Attacks). This functionality is controlled by the
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