From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jun 30 03:41:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B521990CC0 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:41:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8571B18 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:41:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 1B1E4990CBF; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A970990CBE for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:41:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2D131B14 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:41:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151B040E786 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:32:10 +0700 (ICT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cs.ait.ac.th; h= content-type:content-type:mime-version:message-id:date:date :subject:subject:from:from:received:received:received; s= selector1; t=1435635109; x=1437449510; bh=HsaU0K83A+RIpt+4GzRgqO T+af4IrcG4o+OTV0jOiRI=; b=BMXibmcVuvBHHNnI0GPMIn/2/HJ7Hr6kJTSl0l Ml2yJ6G36EeYhsemA+Mnazt0PxpD4BdiMur/oLz3hZwMWG1VkApp3haV6/ERsEu0 dcCZPOf6twEOwXyw3OzpHD4jnsEC9anD1MCvrRH6fUP7l+JvsA//x31CIZk/5NYl 4WoUc= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ait.ac.th Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id EWR6ETPAalJ3 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:31:49 +0700 (ICT) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7355040E783 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:31:49 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id t5U3WVBQ025987; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:32:31 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th) From: Olivier Nicole To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:32:31 +0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:41:36 -0000 Hi, Since I updated my amanda server to 10.1, I cannot complete a back-up, the system will freeze in the middle of the dumps with bunches of error: Jun 30 09:37:16 amanda kernel: [zone: mbuf_cluster] kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached The kernel is: FreeBSD amanda.cs.ait.ac.th 10.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p9 #0 r282829: Wed May 13 14:31:30 ICT 2015 root@amanda.cs.ait.ac.th:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 and sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 253064 This ipc.nmbcluster seems terribly high (like 0.5 GB memory), but that's the value set by the kernel by default! Something must be wrong there, but I don't know ehre to look. Thanks in advance for the help, olivier --