From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 16:42:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AFEEE7F for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D0172F6C for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id rd3so476328pab.4 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:42:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=AIzEGVzvzvyoV85ZBFs1kj0Ob9nk76tiXvgIoDZX/hY=; b=EExwKPrMdi8+umOkxiD+VHDgES29TAmiiIdJm6nDYuC8PoKX6PtQBbzt6OpeW/k+vf JRNKEoOoTsbZc3M8seNYLjNr6WXHSBkMDrCw99H/8acfJ5pkWb0J13w4c1xavuOiR6t7 iPOGdpyeQA/bNknL0atpEso6swoE5QCpX8zv8QuWR0FosG41GdHche+zcumNCx3RURkp 6f0Q9of+hFj7wmngtRDumgGX5fkCBv34aAh65YE3EsccCFKx3hgoiVYcfk/R+6XbNytn ndsj9bmxocAoeRivIEOtAsLqfgVirkWtR+zTgTKlcBIYJOPAnAmYK3ajJWgnhOPH7PNs yscg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmu6A7nrdY6TiiE/N2UPpmpRerw8T+xXOTaQrQeFuVW+Xb2sVBSGUiNKiU4zu5bgqdZxlRA X-Received: by 10.68.125.135 with SMTP id mq7mr2805696pbb.103.1403626472894; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.74] (76-252-236-89.lightspeed.sndgca.sbcglobal.net. [76.252.236.89]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id vs10sm1095231pbc.38.2014.06.24.09.14.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53A9A3E7.6090504@brianwhalen.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:14:31 -0700 From: Brian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached makes a server go down, please help References: <1403617939.95369.YahooMailNeo@web162504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1403617939.95369.YahooMailNeo@web162504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:42:23 -0000 On 6/24/2014 6:52 AM, Stefan Stere wrote: > Hi, > > I have a vmware virtual server running FreeBSD 10.0 STABLE > The virtual server has 100mbps port. > > It is running a Tor router, consuming an average of 6-7 TB of monthly traffic. Its the only purpose of the server. > > Last night it went down, and vmware console log was saying: > [zone: Mbuf_cluster] kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached > > > I don't know what this means - the traffic of the server is unlimited and nothing is capped in any way. What can I do to fix this? I have read on freebsd wiki that I might need to add some lines to sysctl ? can you please confirm? Thank you in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Try netstat -m to see how many are being used. There is some info here also https://wiki.freebsd.org/NetworkPerformanceTuning Brian