From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 20:15:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E697016A401 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:15:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maslak@ihlas.net.tr) Received: from mailhub.ihlas.net.tr (mailhub.ihlas.net.tr [213.238.128.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B9043D53 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:15:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maslak@ihlas.net.tr) Received: (qmail 71687 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2006 20:15:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ihlasnetym) (maslak@213.238.150.220) by 0 with ESMTPA; 7 Apr 2006 20:15:36 -0000 Message-ID: <00a201c65a7f$fae49a70$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym> From: "Halid Faith" To: References: <002b01c65a4e$f169a7a0$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym> <44wte1ntn3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:15:13 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Subject: Re: Why do I get this message by the server ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:15:56 -0000 Ok How can I increase value of mbufs ? I think I will need to increase value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters. value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters of the server is 51200. What is the limit for kern.ipc.nmbclusters ? What size can I increase it ? The server has 2 gbyte ram, p4 2.4 Ghz 2 cpus. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: "Halid Faith" Cc: Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 9:10 PM Subject: Re: Why do I get this message by the server ? > "Halid Faith" writes: > > > I have a freebsd5.4 server. I sometimes get a message on the screen as below; > > > > kernel: ipfw: pullup failed > > > > What cause this problem cause ? > > There weren't enough mbufs available for ipfw to properly inspect a > packet. So one packet was dropped by the firewall that perhaps would > not have been if an extra mbuf were available. It's not a problem in > itself, but if happening extremely often, you should allocate more > mbufs. > > > I see the below lines when I type netstat -ni > > > > 1# netstat -ni > > Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll > > bge0 1500 00:13:d4:51:5d:e9 1618711264 0 4211116941 0 0 > > bge0 1500 212.175.51.68 212.175.51.70 3389522 - 8161 - - > > bge0 1500 fe80:1::213:d fe80:1::213:d4ff: 0 - 3 - - > > bge1 1500 00:13:d4:51:5d:ea 307271458 0 808964464 0 0 > > bge1 1500 192.168.12.1 192.168.12.63 2276942 - 82504 - - > > bge1 1500 fe80:2::213:d fe80:2::213:d4ff: 0 - 4 - - > > lo0 16384 1465002 0 1465002 0 0 > > lo0 16384 127 127.0.0.1 1463512 - 3566 - - > > lo0 16384 ::1/128 ::1 0 - 0 - - > > lo0 16384 fe80:3::1/64 fe80:3::1 0 - 0 - - > > > > sysctl net.inet.ip | grep queue > > net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen: 50 > > net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops: 19512403 > > > > What shall I do ? > > You don't have to do anything. You could turn off the "verbose" flag > for ipfw, and then you wouldn't see these messages. Or you could > increase the number of mbufs available in the kernel. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >