From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 17:44:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.201.55.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0813737BE2C for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:44:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Received: from localhost (jwg2@localhost) by adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA66392 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:44:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:44:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Gray To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mbuf or maxuser reset 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 One of my servers had a spontaneous restart. The logs show, Mar 11 07:00:08 NAME/kernel.old: Out of mbuf clusters - adjust NMBCLUSTERS \ or increase maxusers! Two approaches are suggested here, but I am not clear which is better, preferred and especially why. FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #6: Mon Jan 24 17:07:40 PST 2000 CPU: Pentium II/Xeon/Celeron (686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183fbff real memory = 268435456 (262144K bytes) 1. Rebuild the kernel with maxusers from 92 current to say 124 maxusers. or 2. use sysctl to change kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 1984 <--current to a bigger number. Thanks jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message