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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:47:56 +0200
From:      Mark Schouten <mark@tuxis.nl>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Frequent hickups on the networking layer
Message-ID:  <4281350517-9417@kerio.tuxis.nl>

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Hi,


I've got a FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE box running with iscsi on top of ZFS. I've =
had some major issues with it where it would stop processing traffic for a =
minute or two, but that's 'fixed' by disabling TSO. I do have frequent iscs=
i errors, which are luckily fixed on the iscsi layer, but they do cause an =
occasional errormessage on both the iscsi client and server. Also, I see in=
put errors on the FreeBSD server, but I'm unable to find out what those are=
. I do see a relation between iscsi-errormessages and the number of etherne=
t inputerrors on the server.


I saw this message [1] which made me have a look at `vmstat -z`, and that s=
hows me the following:


vmstat -z | head -n 1; vmstat -z | sort -k 6 -t , | tail -10 ITEM          =
         SIZE  LIMIT     USED     FREE      REQ FAIL SLEEP zio_data_buf_942=
08:   94208,      0,     162,       5,  135632,   0,   0 zio_data_buf_98304=
:   98304,      0,     118,       9,  101606,   0,   0 zio_link_cache:     =
     48,      0,       6,   30870,24853549414,   0,   0 8 Bucket:          =
      64,      0,     145,    2831,148672720,  11,   0 32 Bucket:          =
    256,      0,     859,     731,231513474,  52,   0 mbuf_jumbo_9k:       =
  9216, 604528,    7230,    2002,11764806459,108298123,   0 64 Bucket:     =
         512,      0,     808,     352,147120342,16375582,   0 256 Bucket: =
           2048,      0,     500,      50,307051808,189685088,   0 vmem bta=
g:               56,      0, 1671605, 1291509,198933250,36431,   0 128 Buck=
et:            1024,      0,     410,     106,65267164,772374,   0=20


I am using jumboframes. Could it be that the inputerrors AND my frequent hi=
ckups come from all those failures to allocate 9k jumbo mbufs? And can I in=
crease the in [1] mentioned sysctls at will?


Thanks






[1]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-August/2528=
27.html


Met vriendelijke groeten,

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