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Date:      Fri, 08 May 1998 13:12:05 +0100
From:      Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Cc:        Chris Fanning <cfanning@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MBUFs and IPFW revisited
Message-ID:  <29428.894629525@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 May 1998 12:53:56 %2B0200." <xzp90odvxrv.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no>

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i 'll take the chance here,

i've captured instances of netstat -m which reported 99% (even 100%) in use
and occasionally the machine crashed (and then i couldnt tell of course) and i was suspecting that "running out of mbufs" could well be the reason.

At least that's what i liked to think since we are talking about "sligthly" modified TCP code with several connections opened simultaneoulsy with 
large cwnds (around 17K each if i remember well).
 
Am i right in assuming : 
- "100% in use" will cause a crash ?
- the way to increase memory allocated to network is 
      options "NMBCLUSTERS=XXXX" ?

Cheers,
Panos


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