From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 08:19:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C7E37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spf13.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-67.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278F943FBF for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwest254@mail.com) Received: from 205-158-62-68.outblaze.com (205-158-62-68.outblaze.com [205.158.62.68]) by spf13.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 966B31814A33 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:19:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 43675 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 15:19:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com) (205.158.62.57) by 205-158-62-153.outblaze.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 15:19:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 39092 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Jul 2003 15:19:05 -0000 Message-ID: <20030716151905.39091.qmail@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [193.120.103.96] by ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com with http for jwest254@mail.com; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:19:05 -0500 From: "James West" To: "Lukas Ertl" Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:19:05 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 193.120.103.96 X-Originating-Server: ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major problem with "No buffer space available" errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:19:15 -0000 The machine has 256Mb of RAM, 36Gb scsi drive and is a 1.3Ghz AMD cpu. I've switched MAXUSERS back to 0 now, right now before reboot my mbuf sysctl values read: # sysctl -a | grep mbuf kern.ipc.mbuf_wait: 32 kern.ipc.nmbufs: 260000 I'm stumped, stumped like a tree! James. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lukas Ertl Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:51:34 +0200 (CEST) To: James West Subject: Re: Major problem with "No buffer space available" errors > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, James West wrote: > > > Hmm, kinda made that all confusing sounding, what i mean is i'm having > > the problem with MAXUSERS set to 0 and also when its set to 512. > > You didn't tell us how much memory that box has. MAXUSERS 512 is certainly > a huge number. > > FWIW, I'd suggest you'd go back to MAXUSERS 0 (the auto-tuning of FreeBSD > is quiet ok) and have a look at the mbuf clusters. You can increase them > at boot time if you see you haven't enough. > > regards, > le > > -- > Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at > UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 > Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 > der Universität Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers