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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:25:41 -0800
From:      "Scott Hess" <scott@avantgo.com>
To:        "Fabian Thylmann" <fthylmann@stats.net>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem with not disappearing sockets.
Message-ID:  <1c6301bf5bdb$2810d360$1e80000a@avantgo.com>
References:  <004301bf58c6$9f33bc40$0593e289@oph.rwthaachen.de> <0ad901bf587b$6fde13f0$1e80000a@avantgo.com> <002a01bf5c26$a4227ee0$0593e289@oih.rwthaachen.de>

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Fabian Thylmann <fthylmann@stats.net>
> The way we handle the high socket numbers is just a very high maxusers
> setting in the kernel and on top of that also directly setting the max
> nmbclusters to a high number (even higher than the calculated one that
> results from the maxusers) ..... This helped keeping the box from kernel
> panicing because of mbuf cluster overruns, which I guess your box
probably
> crashes on. Check the netstat -m numbers, that will give you info on max
and
> current mbuf usage. If thats very close, its probably mbuf clusters
running
> out and the kernel panicing on that.
> The easiest way to get around this is to just increase the maxusers
number
> in the kernel.

Hmm, must be something else, then.  Our MAXUSERS is set to 512, and our
nmbclusters is set obscenely high, 33280.  netstat -m reports seldom get
above 20%.

Later,
scott




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