From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 25 19: 4: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A3C37B404 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:03:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1Q33tK12750; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:03:55 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (andersonpc [192.168.42.18]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA12336; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:03:54 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C7AFC72.A17D7857@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:09:39 -0600 From: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Grissom Cc: Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mbuf cluster allocation failed Error References: <017001c1be0e$0057acd0$53061b9d@univr.it> <3C7A53C0.C2E5ED69@centtech.com> <017f01c1be0e$937ac240$53061b9d@univr.it> <3C7A556F.A403A30C@centtech.com> <021f01c1be0f$da45d100$53061b9d@univr.it> <20020226013335.GC624@ibb1150.ibb.uu.nl> <3C7AF7AC.D119D0EF@morganstanley.com> <001701c1be72$03003920$0301a8c0@mikeyg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org True! Be careful because your machine may not boot if you whack it too hard. (so to speak). Eric Mike Grissom wrote: > The highest NMBCLUSTERS stated in LINT is 32768, just a warning. Read the > LINT file > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Victor Tayer" > To: > Cc: "Alberto Manzoni" ; ; > > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:49 PM > Subject: Re: Mbuf cluster allocation failed Error > > > yup i agree. had that error also when i was still working for an isp. > > that server was used as a transparent proxy with a more than thousand > > subs. all i did was recompiled the kernel to support NMBCLUSTERS=65536 > > (max) at first then trimmed it down so i would not be raping my box very > > hard. :P > > > > victor "jett" tayer > > > > Mipam wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:19:43PM +0100, Alberto Manzoni wrote: > > > > This is the output of "netstat -m" > > > > > > > > 502/1088/34816 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): > > > > 326 mbufs allocated to data > > > > 176 mbufs allocated to packet headers > > > > 324/756/8704 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > > > > 1784 Kbytes allocated to network (6% of mb_map in use) > > > > 0 requests for memory denied > > > > 0 requests for memory delayed > > > > 0 calls to protocol drain routines > > > > > > Hmm you could recompile your kernel and add > > > options NMBCLUSTERS=[high value] in it to cope with this > > > problem. > > > Bye, > > > > > > Mipam. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message