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Date:      Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:13:46 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        pyunyh@gmail.com, weldon@excelsusphoto.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 8.0 - network stack crashes?
Message-ID:  <20F5AABC-C98D-4D64-AAE3-D87D0C21B8C1@anduin.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911291427240.80654@fledge.watson.org>
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On 29. nov. 2009, at 15.29, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Eirik =D8verby wrote:
>=20
>> I just did that (-rxcsum -txcsum -tso), but the numbers still keep =
rising. I'll wait and see if it goes down again, then reboot with those =
values to see how it behaves. But right away it doesn't look too good ..
>=20
> It would be interesting to know if any of the counters in the output =
of netstat -s grow linearly with the allocation count in netstat -m.  =
Often times leaks are associated with edge cases in the stack (typically =
because if they are in common cases the bug is detected really quickly!) =
-- usually error handling, where in some error case the unwinding fails =
to free an mbuf that it should free.  These are notoriously hard to =
track down, unfortunately, but the stats output (especially where delta =
alloc is linear to delta stat) may inform the situation some more.

I'm collecting the output of netstat -m|grep "mbuf clusters" and netstat =
-s every 10 seconds now. Will allow it to run until the box stops =
responding. Not sure what to do with the data after the box has "died" =
.. Will try to see if there are any obvious similarities.

Suggestions welcome - both how to collect data and how to analyse ;)

/Eirik




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