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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:25:06 +0200
From:      Alexander Maret <maret@atrada.net>
To:        "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   AW: mbuf clusters behavior (NMBCLUSTERS)
Message-ID:  <58A002A02C5ED311812E0050044517F00D2860@erlangen01.atrada.de>

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> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: naoyuki_tai@mac.com [mailto:naoyuki_tai@mac.com]
> 
> When I copy a 500M file (like iso image) from the workstation to the
> server, the server starts to emit:
> 
> Jul 12 09:28:54 nile /kernel: All mbuf clusters exhausted, 
> please see tuning(7).

I'm getting the same error here with 4.6-R.
 
> So, I bumped up the nmbclusters to kern.ipc.nmbclusters=65536
> I allocated 128Mbytes to the mbuf clusters, hoping that it is 
> big enough.
> But, it still shows that the same 
> 
> All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7).

The same for me.


> How can I prevent this "mbuf clusters exhaustion"?

I would be interested in an answer, too.

 
> Relating to this, I do not understand why that the mbuf clusters
> are not freed fast enough. I watched "top" and it does seem to be
> that CPU is not exhausted.
> After all, I'm copying less than 10Mbyte/sec, probably 6 - 7 Mbytes
> at most.
> Hard disk is a Seagate ATA/IV 60Gbyte.The drive is hooked up to a 
> Promise PCI ATA/UDMA 100 controller card.
> bonnie shows that it can sustain 15M - 20M bytes read/write. 

I'm trying to copy data from an 1GHZ Mobile PIII Linux installation
with IDE disks to an AMD Athlon 700 FBSD 4.6-R installation with
Ultra 160 SCSI disks over NFS. I'm wondering too why the FreeBSD box can't
cope with my lousy linux installation. Didn't have time to investigate
though.


> Is there anything I can try?


Greetings,
Alex

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