From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 11:14:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08149 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ulantris.infinop.com (root@ulantris.infinop.com [205.230.144.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08143 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:14:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by ulantris.infinop.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA18719; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 13:30:13 -0600 From: "John A. Booth" Message-Id: <199601131930.NAA18719@ulantris.infinop.com> Subject: Re: mb_map full To: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br (Sergio Lenzi) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 13:30:09 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Sergio Lenzi" at Jan 13, 96 02:33:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > what does this error mean? > > You're out of phisical memory in the kernel. (I think). > > what caused this...remedies...etc > > Remedies: recompile the kernel with the option NMBCLUSTERS=xxx > try xxx=2048,3072,4096 depending on the ammount of memory your > machine has... > Well...your out of Network Memory Buffers....usually you'll only encounter the mb_map full message when your on a busy network...try 1024 then go up by 512...1024 will take up 2 meg of the physical machine memory...so you don't really want to put a very large number for NMBCLUSTERS. I had problems with this on a local net that had ~ 200 pc's running netware clients, 2 NetWare servers, and about 20-30 unix boxes. You might also look @ netstat -m, it'll show how many mbuf clusters you have total (this is equivalent to NMBCLUSTERS in your configuration file.) I'm on a much less busy net now, but here's what a netstat -m on my machine looks like. I could probably drop my NMBCLUSTERS back down to 1024. 654 mbufs in use: 589 mbufs allocated to data 49 mbufs allocated to packet headers 15 mbufs allocated to protocol control blocks 1 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses 227/2048 mbuf clusters in use 4177 Kbytes allocated to network (12% in use) 0 requests for memory denied 1 requests for memory delayed 1 calls to protocol drain routines