Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:56:02 -0500 (EST) From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> To: Michael Class <michael_class@hp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network performance-problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012191354110.8500-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com> In-Reply-To: <3A3F476A.9FA98FCC@hp.com>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Michael Class wrote: > It seems that NewReno is switched on by default in current. > Unfortunately switching off NewReno does not change the problem. In > times of very high network-traffic I am still unable to use the network. > The system does not even respond to a ping where as all other systems I > have (HPUX 10.20, 11.0 and NT4) behave as expected: slow response-times, > but still working and ping-able. What is your NMBCLUSTERS set to? And in cases of "high traffic," what does `netstat -m' show for number of clusters and mbufs "in use?" How much of mb_map (%) is in use? If any of these are relatively close to exhaustion, try increasing NMBCLUSTERS in your kernel configuration and rebuilding. > At home I am using this Laptop in a 100MB-Network and am able to almost > saturate the link without any problems. Could it be that this is just > happening for multicast-packets (that's what the high network-traffic > is)? > > Anything else I could check? > > TIA > > Michael > > > -- > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Michael Class E-Mail: michael_class@hp.com > E-Business Solution Division Phone: +49 7031 14-3707 > Fax: +49 7031 14-4505 > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Hewlett-Packard GmbH, PO Box 1430, Mailstop ESD2, 71004 Boeblingen > Managing Directors: Rainer Geissel (Chairman),Rainer Erlat, Heribert > Schmitz, Hans-Jochen Lueckefett, Fritz Schuller > Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Joerg Menno Harms > Commercial register: Amtsgericht Boeblingen HRB 4081 > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Cheers, Bosko Milekic bmilekic@technokratis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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