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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:52:40 +0800
From:      Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim <ihsan@grep.my>
To:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   increasing 'requests for jumbo clusters denied'
Message-ID:  <1713E286-B096-44B6-846D-81854D6F809B@grep.my>

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Hi,

I'm on 9.0-RELEASE-p3 and have had a number of instances where my igb0 =
network connectivity locked up under heavy load.

I've had another em1 device which I used for side-band access which does =
not have as much load as my primary igb0 device.

I've read previous cases of this but can't seem to find any fitting =
solutions.

I've tried increasing mbufs and jumbo mbufs:
nsv01-kul:ihsan $ sysctl -a | grep nmb
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16: 3200
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9: 25600
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop: 12800
kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 262144

but I'm still receiving a lot of 'requests for jumbo clusters denied' =
stats on netstat -m output.
nsv01-kul:ihsan $ netstat -m
7347/3063/10410 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
334/2658/2992/262144 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
334/1330 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use =
(current/cache)
1749/1310/3059/12800 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use =
(current/cache/total/max)
5116/563/5679/25600 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/3200 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
55544K/16388K/71933K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
0/25154247/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max)
0 requests for sfbufs denied
0 requests for sfbufs delayed
0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
0 calls to protocol drain routines

The server has not locked up yet after increasing the mbufs (been less =
than 8 hours since increasing this) but can someone enlighten me what =
could be the causes for jumbo clusters requests being denied although =
I've increased the 9k jumbo clusters to 25600?

Thanks.

ihsan=



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