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Date:      05 May 1998 10:47:56 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=  <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>=?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C?=  \"David E. Cross\"" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network problem with 2.2.6-STABLE
Message-ID:  <xzphg359k8z.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Tom's message of "Mon, 4 May 1998 11:22:04 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980504112038.18757B-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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Tom <tom@sdf.com> writes:
> On 4 May 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav  wrote:
> > Tom <tom@sdf.com> writes:
> > >   Not enough mbufs.  Increase MAXUSERS or NMBCLUSTERS
> > Does anybody have a thumb rule for the amount of mbuf clusters needed?
>   What are you at now?  If you have MAXUSERS set to 64 (which you should
> probably do anyhow for servers), you will have a large number of mbufs.

I have maxusers set at 64, which should give me 512 + 64 * 16 = 1536
mbufs, but that is apparently not enough. I made world yesterday and
recompiled my kernel with NBUF set to 2048 and NMBCLUSTERS set to
8192. That ought to be enough (and with 128 MB of RAM, I'm not really
short on memory)

> You can use "netstat -m" to look at current usage, and the high-water

I'll try that.

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