From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 19:26:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat192.211.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.192.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2E6152FB for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA02583; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 23:26:48 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 23:26:48 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBUFs ... 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 On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > > > > According to netstat -m, my configuration is as such: > > > > > > > > 840/1032/1024 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > > > > > > > > Peak is 8 clusters over max...how is that possible? And what does that > > > > affect? > > > > > > Network traffic. Normally, the kernel panics when you run out of mbufs. > > > > > > Solution: increase maxusers. > > > > Solution: leave maxusers, increase NMBCLUSTERS > > Ha! We're both right. From /sys/conf/param.c: > > #ifndef NMBCLUSTERS > #define NMBCLUSTERS (512 + MAXUSERS * 16) The problem with MAXUSERS (that was suggested to me the other day) was that you raise a bunch of other things that don't necessarily need to be raised, wasting memory... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message