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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:42:05 +0100
From:      Krzysztof Kowalik <kkowalik@uci.agh.edu.pl>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: fxp(4) and lockups on RELENG_6_x
Message-ID:  <20070113094205.GA27560@uci.agh.edu.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20070107155229.GA4749@uci.agh.edu.pl>
References:  <20070107155229.GA4749@uci.agh.edu.pl>

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Krzysztof Kowalik <kkowalik@uci.agh.edu.pl> wrote:

> We are running an (IRC) server that under high-rate traffic (ie. DDoS
> attack) stops to respond to the network. The network remains locked up
> even after the original attack stops. [...]

And it turns out to be an usual PEBKAC. The system was running out of
mbuf clusters, and after increasing kern.ipc.nmbclusters to a sane value
things started to work as expected again. Since it's usually the first
thing one changes on such a box, we didn't even think of checking it.

Sorry for the noise.

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