From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 10:16:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4223316A415 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:16:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@yoafrica.com) Received: from ns2.yoafrica.com (ns2.yoafrica.com [66.135.41.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E7943D8A for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:06:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@yoafrica.com) Received: from panadol.yoafrica.com ([196.44.176.14]) by ns2.yoafrica.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Gu4XK-0006hq-QG for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:07:02 +0200 Received: from smtp.yoafrica.com ([196.44.176.8]) by panadol.yoafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gu4XN-000IBX-5l for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:07:11 +0200 Received: from hades.yoafrica.com ([196.44.177.50]) by smtp.yoafrica.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gu4XL-000OyJ-Qz for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:06:59 +0200 Received: from sysjo by hades.yoafrica.com with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gu4Xj-00052o-Ju for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:07:23 +0200 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:07:23 +0200 From: John Oxley To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061212100723.GA32371@yoafrica.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Cc: Subject: running out of mbuf clusters X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:16:30 -0000 Hi, I'm running a shaper system on a FreeBSD box. It is pushing sustained 8 Mbps. In the messages log I'm getting lots of Dec 11 21:03:54 ritalin /kernel: All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7). When I run netstat -m however I get $ netstat -m 1766/5904/80000 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 1766 mbufs allocated to data 1765/5900/20000 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 13276 Kbytes allocated to network (22% of mb_map in use) 30 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines Why is it saying its run out of mbuf clusters when it peaked at 5900? The machine is running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. The reason for this is that it is a shaper appliance, and it was shipped to us with 4.9 on it. Does anyone have any ideas