From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 16:51:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9561437B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A707C43E42 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from ethel (lan08.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gAM0a9t10864 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:36:09 -0800 Message-ID: <011a01c291c1$4f186670$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: Subject: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:35 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I'm seeking suggestions for sysctl variables to use on a highly-taxed mission-critical file-server. This computer exports two 630GB arrays via SAMBA over gigabit on 3ware escalades. Anyone have any tips? The reason I'm asking is because smbd has been dropping processes lately. I recently added more render engines to our stack, so the file-server seems to be choking somewhere. dmesg shows: -snip- Nov 21 04:33:15 fnord /kernel: pid 1866 (smbd), uid 1005: exited on signal 6 Nov 21 04:20:01 fnord /kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 208 to 200 packets per second -snip- -- David Smithson - Systems Administrator Custom Film Effects (http://www.customfilmeffects.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message