From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 13:55:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CFAB178 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm43.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm43.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.120.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C62C62C57 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] by nm43.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 13:55:27 -0000 Received: from [98.138.100.111] by nm43.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 13:52:27 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.153] by tm100.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 13:52:20 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.220] by tm10.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 13:52:19 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1029.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 13:52:19 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-4 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 935628.58853.bm@omp1029.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 35233 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Jun 2014 13:52:19 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1403617939; bh=KJaMCO53P4+UFy+6EpEcM3jzq6lfJ9aXaa/OCJy3v5c=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=adJPfRH4LV8meP4/OcRZNu+LtDMqB1OEA8GvIy9phlHSBjU9MjMhHJOAeQQbLJkh3oMau4RvYB+nOHmP28yGS1NoVwLLfDLi0lN0UlDccMtc3Kk+QB2Ks4v/um8duNMwHcUkYNvS9qn4hcpOakNnNoVTzsuZK3S2aWVxvZv9nqs= X-YMail-OSG: nmF1YdIVM1kL0iHXFLD0RKMmcm61QW56kOY4wLLRAGwMFYH 1LovCq4Kn1.vpyr4j6xa24keISWAJrspiRS8Jrn0BF4QVOKPMSCiVitOhlYi mmh5KT.jI3.MfPw89Xb8m7N5ubbfmkcwYrDpC6wui1AzmEI4Q6A6qdAk9uJ1 bdG7Fuiqr85P1cDXOHDpDF.nzBJyEaqObC5mXMMdvTHpJ.FZvu.3T7HDLJwY KOTjsw2JfbFfp1yQ4fcvDYjJVgSr6lof1rm79HiCfrlnEg5O.o3nODAY5Kc9 JS_eIyd8Vdtclq3FCdgRMM2r02FomBLn.NH4wVlSz53kcJtiG1if7OjcSMCU Zab8qkVryecQ3cn9hh7be.fDXJgaiu.khCbziWaMlOyljOaLJxFo9AHX84Nk 0F0UBnMqwqBa4Sm5fD2XuTTDcAThnJFY8mxou9.nZ06cszAnkFX3z5YYHrvA dKEx9QUBvDUy_T_VCJl1XfHNbVxETmCN_iFovPHUfTSjs0.QEkEpvxE12bvv t11bt48FxP9MCrrirZ5AOFy.7LOYuHOUY2BbH6Q-- Received: from [89.122.203.240] by web162504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:52:19 PDT X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 002.001, SGksCgpJIGhhdmUgYSB2bXdhcmUgdmlydHVhbCBzZXJ2ZXIgcnVubmluZyBGcmVlQlNEIDEwLjAgU1RBQkxFClRoZSB2aXJ0dWFsIHNlcnZlciBoYXMgMTAwbWJwcyBwb3J0LgoKSXQgaXMgcnVubmluZyBhIFRvciByb3V0ZXIsIGNvbnN1bWluZyBhbiBhdmVyYWdlIG9mIDYtNyBUQiBvZiBtb250aGx5IHRyYWZmaWMuIEl0cyB0aGUgb25seSBwdXJwb3NlIG9mIHRoZSBzZXJ2ZXIuCgpMYXN0IG5pZ2h0IGl0IHdlbnQgZG93biwgYW5kIHZtd2FyZSBjb25zb2xlIGxvZyB3YXMgc2F5aW5nOgpbem9uZTogTWJ1Zl8BMAEBAQE- X-RocketYMMF: stere01 X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.191.1 Message-ID: <1403617939.95369.YahooMailNeo@web162504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:52:19 -0700 From: Stefan Stere Reply-To: : ; Subject: kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached makes a server go down, please help To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:55:29 -0000 Hi, I have a vmware virtual server running FreeBSD 10.0 STABLE The virtual server has 100mbps port. It is running a Tor router, consuming an average of 6-7 TB of monthly traffic. Its the only purpose of the server. Last night it went down, and vmware console log was saying: [zone: Mbuf_cluster] kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached I don't know what this means - the traffic of the server is unlimited and nothing is capped in any way. What can I do to fix this? I have read on freebsd wiki that I might need to add some lines to sysctl ? can you please confirm? Thank you in advance.