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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

> I suspect this has less to do with actual memory and more to do with some
> other buffer-like bottleneck.  Does tuning any of the network buffers make
> any difference?  A couple to try:
>
> net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen
> net.link.ifqmaxlen
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters
>
> If possible, does changing from VM bridged -> NAT or vice-versa result in
> any behavior change?
>

Also check vmstat -z, net.graph.maxdata may be a candidate as well.

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Adam Vande More