From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 1 15: 0:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail2.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9A737B404 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 15:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alcanet.com.au (8.12.1/8.12.1/Alcanet1.2) with ESMTP id g41M0Rp7000494 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 08:00:27 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.2-32 #37640) with ESMTP id <01KH8TXYSDSWVMNVGT@cim.alcatel.com.au> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 May 2002 08:00:26 +1000 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g41M0Oo54440 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 May 2002 08:00:24 +1000 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 08:00:24 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: MBUF allocation failures To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020502080023.X25071@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Last nights daily report on one of my machines included: > m_clalloc failed, consider increase NMBCLUSTERS value > m_retry failed, consider increase mbuf value But: aalp03# netstat -m 71/1264/16384 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 71 mbufs allocated to data 69/1242/4096 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 2800 Kbytes allocated to network (22% of mb_map in use) 34 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines aalp03# uname -a Why am I getting m_clalloc() failures when the reported peak usage is well below the maximum reported by netstat? This is an old -STABLE (just before 4.5-RC1). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message