Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:22:17 -0600 From: "Nicholas Vinen" <hb@sonique.com> To: <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Crashing problems Message-ID: <000701bec503$4312c570$6d00a8c0@heaven.space.net>
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Hi,
We have two web servers running FreeBSD. We had 3.0 crash a lot, and so we installed 3.1 on the new one (and plan to upgrade to 3.2 as soon as we can) but it still seems to not be able to handle very much load at all. On the 3.0 machine we had to set the NMBCLUSTERS value to 16384 (4x the recommended limit) to get it stable enough to stay up for one day. I don't know what the NMBCLUSTERS is on the 3.1 machine but it crashes almost as soon as it's up from the web traffic being delivered to it. All it's running basically is apache. Is this a known problem, that this value is too low? If our traffic continues to grow like this we might have to set the value even above 16384. (8192 was definately not high enough). Could the fact that the machine often has over 1000 processes (50+ running) be causing it to crash too? we really need it to be stable, it's offsite and quite popular.
Nicholas Vinen
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT
color=#000000> We have two web servers
running FreeBSD. We had 3.0 crash a lot, and so we installed 3.1 on the new one
(and plan to upgrade to 3.2 as soon as we can) but it still seems to not be able
to handle very much load at all. On the 3.0 machine we had to set the
NMBCLUSTERS value to 16384 (4x the recommended limit) to get it stable enough to
stay up for one day. I don't know what the NMBCLUSTERS is on the 3.1 machine but
it crashes almost as soon as it's up from the web traffic being delivered to it.
All it's running basically is apache. Is this a known problem, that this value
is too low? If our traffic continues to grow like this we might have to set the
value even above 16384. (8192 was definately not high enough). Could the fact
that the machine often has over 1000 processes (50+ running) be causing it to
crash too? we really need it to be stable, it's offsite and quite
popular.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT
color=#000000> Nicholas
Vinen</FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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