Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:48:38 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, abush@microcenter.com Subject: Re: tuning network limits? Message-ID: <200110312148.f9VLmcB83267@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <3BDFFCEC.32FF9CC@mail.microcenter.com>
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Aaron Bush <abush@microcenter.com> wrote:
> [...]
> tosh# netstat -m
> 623/2304/4096 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):
> 263 mbufs allocated to data
> 360 mbufs allocated to packet headers
> 239/1024/1024 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
^^^^^^^^^
> 2624 Kbytes allocated to network (85% of mb_map in use)
> 9152 requests for memory denied
> 3 requests for memory delayed
> 0 calls to protocol drain routines
>
> What other tools can i use to determine where the problem may be.
The line marked above is exactly your problem.
Either compile a larger number of NMBCLUSTERS into your
kernel, or use the appropriate loader.conf option to set
the value at boot time.
By the way, you're lucky -- Earlier versions of FreeBSD
tended to panic sometimes when the mbuf limit was hit. ;-)
Regards
Oliver
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