Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:07:39 -0400 From: "Kevin A. Pieckiel" <kpieckiel@smartrafficenter.org> To: Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Buffer space Message-ID: <20020912130739.GC93658@pacer.dmz.smartrafficenter.org> In-Reply-To: <1031785630.7294.6.camel@duncan> References: <20020911163826.GA93658@pacer.dmz.smartrafficenter.org> <1031785630.7294.6.camel@duncan>
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--f+W+jCU1fRNres8c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:07:10AM +1000, Duncan Anker wrote: > Have you got a reason for setting this so high? From your output above I > would think that what the kernel defaults to would be more than > adequate. The reason being past traffic on the list says that increasing maxusers or nmbclusters when you get out of buffer space errors. > The docs warn about setting NMBCLUSTERS arbitrarily high, but I was > under the impression the machine just won't boot up. However, I've never > tried it. > > Do you still get the ping problems if you leave those lines out of your > kernel? I don't think the number of mbufs is the issue here. Yes. This error message is what led me to changing maxusers and nmbclusters in the first place. I've tried several values from small to large and still get the problem. > What do your logs say? Are you getting warning messages about running > out of mbufs anywhere? This particular IP address is a PPP link initiated from this host to a remo= te site. The log files indicate absolutely nothing except: Sep 11 13:12:20 comserver3 ppp[307]: Warning: Chat script failed=20 Sep 11 13:12:20 comserver3 ppp[307]: Warning: deflink: Unable to set physic= al to speed 0=20 Sep 11 13:12:20 comserver3 ppp[307]: Warning: deflink: Unable to set physic= al to speed 0=20 However, a reboot will fix this problem (for a little while). Kevin Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.) -- Larry Wall --- This message was signed by GnuPG. E-Mail kpieckiel-pgp@smartrafficenter.org to receive my public key. You may also get my key from wwwkeys.us.pgp.net; my ID is 0xF1604E92 and will expire on 01 January 2003. --f+W+jCU1fRNres8c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9gJGac3iJbvFgTpIRAt1PAJ9JVEHYUrn2tjFGj/qKS/71Cpf4GACePFyG g3Ozwipc1SxE1GPeJzSbQkQ= =PdQl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f+W+jCU1fRNres8c-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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