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Date:      Sat, 11 May 2002 07:45:28 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Thomas Gravgaard" <fehaar@infopaq.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cluster allocation errors in messages 
Message-ID:  <200205111445.g4BEjSod070729@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <5D750988561203468C18A37D1FC0362F0A9637@dkcphntex01.infopaq.net> 
References:  <5D750988561203468C18A37D1FC0362F0A9637@dkcphntex01.infopaq.net>

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If memory serves me right, "Thomas Gravgaard" wrote:
> I have been getting a massive amount of the following errors in my messages o
> ver the last couple of weeks :
> 
> > m_clalloc failed, consider increase NMBCLUSTERS value
> > fxp0: cluster allocation failed, packet dropped!
> 
> As far as I can see from the archives, the value of NMBCLUSTERS is controlled
>  by the maxusers, and since this value is 0 shouldn't the NMBCLUSTERS value a
> utoscale?

By default, yes.  However, you can force a particular number of cluster
mbufs by setting NMBCLUSTERS in the kernel configuration (see the LINT
configuration file) or by setting the kern.ipc.nmbclusters loader
tunable (see /boot/defaults/loader.conf).  See tuning(7) for more
details.

Bruce.



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