From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 12 13:18:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from account.abs.net (account.abs.net [207.114.5.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8F237BD17 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:18:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howardl@account.abs.net) Received: (from howardl@localhost) by account.abs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3+RBL+DUL+RSS+ORBS) id QAA33520; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:18:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from howardl) From: Howard Leadmon Message-Id: <200003122118.QAA33520@account.abs.net> Subject: Re: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT.. In-Reply-To: <20000312132811.N14279@fw.wintelcom.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Mar 12, 2000 01:28:11 pm" To: Alfred Perlstein Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:18:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL72 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Not a whole lot done, I had the MAXUSERS set to 128, though am about to > > bump it to 256 when I rebuild to see if that helps. I used to have some > > tunables for BSDI when I used it, but when I tried to apply them to FBSD > > it bitched about them being unknown so I just left them out. Was also > > going to move NMBCLUSTERS up to 20480, not sure if thats the solution or > > not. I can post the whole config if desired, but really it's very close > > to the GENERIC except I added SOFTUPDATES, and removed all the drivers I > > didn't need for my system to hopefully slim it down some.. > > grrrr, you _still_ haven't even told me how much RAM is in the box > and what else it does if anything. > > Without that kind of information I'm not too comfortable giving > advice on tuneables because I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TUNING :), when > I've just blindly told people to increase NMBCLUSTERS they've had > other problems because the kernel's network buffers wired down all > the machine's memory. > > Yes, increasing NMBLCUSTERS is a good thing, but without your > configuration it's hard to say how much to increase it. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Sorry, thought you were asking about the kernel configs, not the hardware configs. Here is my current running config via dmesg, as I think that covers it all.. Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #3: Tue Mar 7 04:20:22 EST 2000 root@u2.abs.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/U2 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (551.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 Features=0x183fbff real memory = 402587648 (393152K bytes) config> q avail memory = 387334144 (378256K bytes) Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02cc000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc02cc09c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 pci0: at 7.2 irq 5 Timecounter "PIIX" frequency 3579545 Hz chip1: port 0x5000-0x500f at device 7.3 on pci0 dc0: port 0xd400-0xd47f mem 0xd5410000-0xd54103ff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:f0:3b:a7:eb miibus0: on dc0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: at 15.0 irq 16 atapci1: port 0xe000-0xe0ff,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xd800-0xd807 irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0 atapci2: port 0xec00-0xecff,0xe800-0xe803,0xe400-0xe407 irq 18 at device 19.1 on pci0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppi0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port plip0: on ppbus0 APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! ad0: 8693MB [17662/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold Did I miss anything important you need?? --- Howard Leadmon - howardl@abs.net - http://www.abs.net ABSnet Internet Services - Phone: 410-361-8160 - FAX: 410-361-8162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message