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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:08:39 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
To:        bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: system hangs? after resetting rtq_reallyold 
Message-ID:  <199607151008.DAA02851@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "15 Jul 1996 05:17:43 EDT." <4sd2bn$47f@twwells.com> 

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>In article <199607150758.AAA02464@root.com>,
>David Greenman  <davidg@Root.COM> wrote:
>:    It shouldn't be necessary to set NMBCLUSTERS that high on most "normal"
>: systems. It would take several hundred TCP connections to exhaust 2000 mbuf
>: clusters.
>
>The machine in question is our main shell account server, which
>also hosts our Web server. A netstat shows the following.  At 5AM.
>
> 169 CLOSING
>  65 ESTABLISHED
>  15 FIN_WAIT_1
>   5 FIN_WAIT_2
>  16 LAST_ACK
>   2 SYN_RCVD
>   2 SYN_SENT
>  34 TIME_WAIT
>
>During peak hours, I expect two or three times those numbers.
>The machine hasn't been rebooted in a month; it's used a maximum
>of 2036 clusters.

   Yes, this is exactly what I was expecting. Thanks for the numbers to back
this up.

>Web servers in particular are going to want a large number of
>mbufs.....

   Yes, absolutely. WWW servers are especially evil because of their
transaction oriented nature. TCP was never designed for that.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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