Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:37:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jeff Gray <jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf or maxuser reset Message-ID: <20000312183731.V14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003121739410.65039-100000@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>; from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:44:44PM -0800 References: <XFMail.000312215856.jpedras@webvolution.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003121739410.65039-100000@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>
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* Jeff Gray <jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> [000312 18:18] wrote: > One of my servers had a spontaneous restart. The logs show, > > Mar 11 07:00:08 NAME/kernel.old: Out of mbuf clusters - adjust > NMBCLUSTERS \ > or increase maxusers! > > > Two approaches are suggested here, but I am not clear which is better, > preferred and especially why. > > FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #6: Mon Jan 24 17:07:40 PST 2000 > CPU: Pentium II/Xeon/Celeron (686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 > Features=0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> > real memory = 268435456 (262144K bytes) > > > 1. Rebuild the kernel with maxusers from 92 current to say 124 maxusers. 128 or higher would be ok with that amount of memory. > > or > > 2. use sysctl to change > > kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 1984 <--current > to a bigger number. this won't work, it needs to be done at boot time, see "man loader" -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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