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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:08:45 +0200
From:      Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimQIEbqoSvZl1i_1jmcYvQt7dLpJnBawrZ_MPe4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>>
>> Can it be related to this issue somehow?
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-August/011013.html
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-August/010740.html
>>
>> It was tested on FreeBSD 8 and high UDP traffic on igb interfaces emits
>> messages "GET BUF: dmamap load failure - 12" and later results in kernel
>> panic.
>> We have not received any response to this report.
>
> Could be the issue, however in our case there is no panic, just that all
> userland activity in the system ceases for 2 minutes after it reaches
> certain network load level.

Sorry for digging into this old thread, but I'm seeing similar
symptoms with today's RELENG_8 and bge(4) attached to BCM5721, on an UP system.
kern.ipc.nmbclusters is 65536, but what strikes me odd is this:

0/115446003/57722999 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)

vmstat -i shows a rate of 1100 for the adapter.

The machine runs a fairly small PF configuration, but I've already
ruled it out, the symptoms appear when PF is disabled as well.

I'll happily provide more info.

Regards,
Vlad



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