From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 05:07:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15860 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 05:07:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ls.wustl.edu (ls.wustl.edu [128.252.251.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15852 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 05:07:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu) Received: from localhost (drbrowns@localhost) by ls.wustl.edu (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13365; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:06:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:06:49 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel R. Brownstone" To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pointer problems, 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I don't think this is 3/4 of the mbufs, is it? Would you suggest recompiling anyway with a larger number? ls:~ {2}: netstat -m 54 mbufs in use: 35 mbufs allocated to data 13 mbufs allocated to packet headers 4 mbufs allocated to protocol control blocks 2 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses 25/102 mbuf clusters in use 210 Kbytes allocated to network (26% in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > This happens to a fraction of the users and unfortunately I don't know a > solution offhand. > > The last suggestion was to check `netstat -m' and see how many mbuf > clusters are in use and the max value. If the max is within 3/4 of the > total maxiumum (default 255?) then you need to increase the number by > compiling your kernel with `options NMBCLUSTERS=XXXX'. > > Something is running out of memory or is leaking memory. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel R. Brownstone drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu Wash. U. School of Law '99 ICQ #191058 HOME: (314)-776-0102 PAGER: (314)-663-1367 *** THIS E-MAIL IS PROPRIETARY ***