Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:21:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: <fbdn@dcee.net> Cc: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: No buffer space available Message-ID: <20011005171752.E7371-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200110052207.AAA06879@orb.bluemoon.ee>
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 fbdn@dcee.net wrote: > I've run into problem that various prgorams (sendmail, ftpd) get often > "cannot create socket: No buffer space available" error. Box is > serving static html and images about 300 requests/sec, no shortage of > memory nor CPU resources. Kernel is compiled with: maxusers 256 > options NMBCLUSTERS=16384 > > # netstat -an | wc -l > 15207 > > My best guess is that system is running out of file descriptors. Any suggestions how to fix it? > > /fb Yep, you're probably running out of sockets. You can change the count in loader.conf, the variable to tune is "kern.ipc.maxsockets". Set it to something higher than 16384, I guess. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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