Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:36:42 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: No buffer space Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990429163527.7628E-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9904291011230.608-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Bryce Newall wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > Apr 28 15:20:01 calico named[13140]: socket(SOCK_RAW): No buffer space > > > available > > > > recompile with a higher maxusers, or do a search on the lists for > > NMBCLUSTERS to find out how to increase them and what the recommended > > increase is. > > MAXUSERS was originally set to 64, and that was causing some other > problems, so we went to an extreme and pushed it up to 512. That was > apparently way too high, and was causing the system to reboot > spontaneously several times a day. We backed it down to 128, which > stabilized that part, but now we're back to having buffer space problems > again. NMBCLUSTERS is set to 6000 at the moment... think that's too low? > > I searched the mailing lists, and found someone referencing their output > from netstat -m. Here's what I have: > > 2194/3136 mbufs in use: > 1001 mbufs allocated to data > 1193 mbufs allocated to packet headers > 691/1460/6000 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > 3312 Kbytes allocated to network (50% in use) > 0 requests for memory denied > 0 requests for memory delayed > 0 calls to protocol drain routines > > I really don't know what all that means... :) But it looks like the top > line is saying that 2194 out of 3136 are in use? Or am I reading that > wrong? If I'm reading it correctly, would increasing NMBCLUSTERS give me > more room to work? Well... if things are better now, leave them be. :) if not, try bumping NMBCLUSTERS again. I would also suggest cvsup'ing to -stable to fix the problems with high maxusers if you are a 3.x system. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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