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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:52:12 -0700
From:      hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
To:        Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>, Niu Zhixiong <kaiaixi@gmail.com>, Bill Yuan <bycn82@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: A problem on TCP in High RTT Environment.
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Michael Tuexen
<Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2014, at 21:40, Eggert, Lars <lars@netapp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2014-8-11, at 21:27, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> wrote:
>>> On 11 Aug 2014, at 14:12, Eggert, Lars <lars@netapp.com> wrote:
>>>> 544/57/8194 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
>>> I guess the above is the problem. The card wants a lot of mbufs...
>>> So the problem should go away if you increase the number of mbufs/clusters,
>>> which means no requests are denied and you don't experience any performance
>>> issue.
>>
>> And I have six of those ports in that box...
>>
>> So I bump kern.ipc.nmbclusters? Any additional sysctls I should bump?
> If I remember correctly, I increased
> kern.ipc.nmbufs and kern.ipc.nmbclusters in /boot/loader.conf

I believe, you just need to set kern.ipc.nmbclusters (max mbuf
clusters allowed) and kern.ipc.nmbufs (max mbufs allowed) should be
adjusted based on that.

cheers,
Hiren


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