From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 19:13:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15231 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15125 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:12:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA19477; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:12:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:12:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Daniel Lang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of buffer space problem In-Reply-To: <19980313100823.51462@hp3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Daniel Lang wrote: > Hi, > is there a simple way to enlarge the network buffers > (mbufs) ? > A hint where to look for instructions how to do it, > would be enough, the handbook and the FAQ don't seem > to cover this topic. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT. Also make sure that this *really* is your problem; monitor netstat -m and make sure that the second number of the mbuf clusters line doesn't get near 2/3 of the total system mbufs (I think the default is 255). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message