Sun Microsystems SunFastEthernet Adapte - Manual (Page 77)

D-1
Solaris 2.x Driver Performance
Tuning
D
If your system is a server which serves clients with heavy traffic and you
experience numerous RPC errors, you may fine tune your system for
performance by changing the buffer default settings in the /etc/system file as
follows.
Table D-1 depicts the buffer default settings; each buffer requiring 1.5 kbyte of
memory.
Go to the /etc/system file and change the buffer default values to the
recommended values as follows:
Note – The maximum setting for berpending is 248
Table D-1 Buffer Default Settings
Buffer
Quantit
y
Description
benbufs 256 Number of free buffers for Tx and Rx
berpending 32 Number of Rx descriptors
288 Total number of buffers allocated
# set be:benbufs=1024
# set be:berpending=64