From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 10:24:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.hd.intel.com (hdfdns02.hd.intel.com [192.52.58.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35EE37B425 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pysmsxvs01.py.intel.com (pysmsxvs01.py.intel.com [146.152.3.51]) by mail2.hd.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: solo.mc,v 1.33 2002/04/09 21:19:32 root Exp $) with SMTP id g3BHOGu05594 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:24:16 GMT Received: from pysmsx030.py.intel.com ([146.152.3.52]) by pysmsxvs01.py.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.1.16) with SMTP id M2002041113241029722 ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:24:10 -0400 Received: by pysmsx030.py.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:24:10 -0400 Message-ID: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC37040C@pysmsx102.py.intel.com> From: "Galella, Anthony" To: "'Buki'" , "Galella, Anthony" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: what is m_clalloc and NMBCLUSTERS? Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:24:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Ok, I can set this value in the kernel, but I would like to find out what is the m_clalloc function doing and what does increasing NMBCLUSTERS actually do? What is the cause of the problem? Too much i/o over the network interface? Thanks Anthony J. Galella anthony.galella@intel.com -----Original Message----- From: Buki [mailto:dev@null.cz] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 12:05 PM To: Galella, Anthony Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: what is m_clalloc and NMBCLUSTERS? On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:19:56PM -0400, Galella, Anthony wrote: > I noticed this pop up in my logfile today, anyone have any ideas? > I am running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE with Samba 2.2.3a the machine is a dual > > Apr 10 16:38:18 ftx1 /kernel: m_clalloc failed, consider increase > NMBCLUSTERS value > Apr 10 16:38:18 ftx1 /kernel: fxp0: cluster allocation failed, packet > dropped! > Apr 10 16:38:18 ftx1 last message repeated 76 times > Apr 10 16:38:19 ftx1 /kernel: m_clalloc failed, consider increase > NMBCLUSTERS value > Apr 10 16:38:19 ftx1 /kernel: fxp0: cluster allocation failed, packet > dropped! > Apr 10 16:38:20 ftx1 /kernel: m_clalloc failed, consider increase > NMBCLUSTERS value > Apr 10 16:38:21 ftx1 /kernel: fxp0: cluster allocation failed, packet > dropped! > Apr 10 16:38:21 ftx1 last message repeated 4 times > Apr 10 16:38:22 ftx1 /kernel: m_clalloc failed, consider increase > NMBCLUSTERS value > > Can anyone tell me what this means and how to resolve it? it simply mean what it says. try increasing NMBCLUSTERS value in kernel config (found in /sys/i386/conf) and recompile the kernel (and reboot) Buki > > Thank You > Anthony J. Galella > anthony.galella@intel.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PGP public key: http://dev.null.cz/buki.asc /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML & Outlook Mail / \ http://www.thebackrow.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message