From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 26 8: 8:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server1.huntsvilleal.com (www.huntsvilleal.com [207.13.224.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F5314C43 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hiwaay.net) Received: from barricuda.bsd.nws.net (kris.huntsvilleal.com [207.13.224.46]) by server1.huntsvilleal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16545 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:52:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by barricuda.bsd.nws.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA39984 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:08:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kris@hiwaay.net) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:08:16 -0600 (CST) From: Kris Kirby To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Acceptable MBUF levels? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was just pondering recently as to what the acceptable levels of size and amount of mbufs in use are. I vaguely seem to recall that if you run out of mbufs, the machine will either panic or reboot. My reason for asking is simple: root:ninbox: {13} netstat -m 767/1152 mbufs in use: 509 mbufs allocated to data 258 mbufs allocated to packet headers 503/846/1024 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 1836 Kbytes allocated to network (60% in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines Yet I do not ever see this machine as a risk for running out of mbufs. Most of my machines have much lower mbuf usage (at the moment). I guess I am more interested in finding out what the acceptable load levels are and how to increase them, up to a non-ridiculous level. --- Kris Kirby .signature maimed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message