From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 6 9:29:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0570437B401 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoth.ffwd.cx (hoth.ffwd.cx [216.187.116.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC3543E3B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skye@ffwd.cx) Received: from skye by hoth.ffwd.cx with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 17nLyk-000LCd-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 09:29:06 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:29:06 -0700 From: Skye Poier To: Wahyu Hidayat Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running out of mbuf Message-ID: <20020906092906.C80587@ffwd.cx> References: <20020905184835.P1069@seven.alameda.net> <20020906022036.90263.qmail@web40013.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020906022036.90263.qmail@web40013.mail.yahoo.com>; from wahyuhid@yahoo.com on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:20:36PM -0700 X-URL: http://www.ffwd.cx/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are two "kinds" of mbufs, to put it simply, mbufs with internal storage (1st item in netstat -m) and mbufs with preallocated external storage (2nd item). Running out of either will cause the error you saw. If you continue to see the problem, you need to increase either the number of mbufs or the number of mbuf clusters, whichever you ran out of. Skye Word on the street is Wahyu Hidayat said: > Thanks for all your immediate reply. > > Sure I have raised NMBCLUSTERS (in my netstat shows to > 20480). > > What is the explanation for my previous post about max > mbufs has not reached, but it already shows about mbuf > allocation failed ? What if I increase nmbclusters but > this problems still occurs ? > > FYI: I am running 4.2-R, fxp ethernet device with > link0 enabled. > > regards > -why- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message