From owner-freebsd-net Tue Sep 25 14:24:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D183437B414 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 73422 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Sep 2001 21:24:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 21:24:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:24:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Jeff Behl Cc: Subject: Re: ENOBUFS and network performance tuning In-Reply-To: <3BB0F49B.8070704@expertcity.com> Message-ID: <20010925162212.Q73194-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jeff Behl wrote: > Any other guidelines to help tune a FreeBSD box for this sort of use > would be greatly appreciated. Currently, the only change we make is > increasing MAXUSERS to 128, though I'm not sure this is the preferred > approach. That's the simplest approach, as it bumps up numerous kernel setting. With 4.4 you can tune it in loader.conf, so changing the setting isn't a big deal. You should probably check how many sockets are sticking around in the TIME_WAIT state and compare it to kern.ipc.maxsockets - that may be the limit you're hitting first. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message