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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:53:14 -0500
From:      talist@vif.com
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Crashing Freebsd + Dummynet + heavy traffic
Message-ID:  <1012243994.3c559e1a0e0d5@email.vif.com>

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I am using a freebsd box as a gateway in order to throttle down bandwidth for 
some particular traffic.
The box freezes under high load and the only way to recover is through a power 
cycle.  
The crash does not generate any logs, but I have ruled out hardware causes.  I 
can repeat the lock-out with 2 different hardware and with xl(4) and dc(4) NIC's

I am suspecting a problem with DUMMYNET's PIPE and QUEUE.

I have collected all the config information about the machine with a small 
script that helps in crashing the box after a few minutes of alternating the 
dummynet pipe's size.
http://www.geocities.com/dummynetus/ipfw.txt

In summary, I have tried the following:
- Boost maxusers to 128
- Boost NMBCLUSTERS to 10240
- monitor netstat -m gives normal readings even before freeze


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