Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:48:36 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> Cc: Richard Chew <rchew@telstra.net>, Wahyu Hidayat <wahyuhid@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running out of mbuf Message-ID: <20020905184835.P1069@seven.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20020905184255.O1069@seven.alameda.net>; from ulf@Alameda.net on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:42:56PM -0700 References: <20020906013248.24028.qmail@web40007.mail.yahoo.com> <5.1.1.6.2.20020906113915.040d71b8@gomer.telstra.net> <20020905184255.O1069@seven.alameda.net>
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:42:56PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:41:17AM +1000, Richard Chew wrote: > > Hi > > > > From your message below, you seem to be running out of mbuf clusters. > > > > You need to modify NBMCLUSTERS in your kernel config file in > > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ and set > > > > options NBMCLUSTERS=dd > > > > where dd is a number greater than the current max. Just how much will > > depend on your particular circumstances. > > > > Recompile the kernel and that should be all. > > You should also be able to raise this via sysctl, the variable > kern.ipc.nmbclusters from what I remember. Let me correct myself. No you can't raise kern.ipc.nmbclusters the way I said. But kern.ipc.maxsockbuf can be, which is based on the variabl above. > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Richard > > > > At 06:32 PM 5/09/2002 -0700, Wahyu Hidayat wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >Firstly I am not a member of this mailling-list, so > > >please CC to me, or if this is not the right forum, > > >give me a direction where I could post it. > > > > > >I have a machine running squid cache-server and apache > > >to answer squidGuard redirectors. When running under > > >heavy load it complains about mbuf: > > > > > >Sep 6 07:42:40 cache2 squid[5735]: aclMatchProxyAuth: > > >user 'imon' tries to use multple IP addresses! > > >Sep 6 07:43:22 cache2 squid[5735]: > > >aclDecodeProxyAuth: Disallowing empty passwo > > >rd,user is '' > > >Sep 6 07:43:26 cache2 last message repeated 2 times > > >Sep 6 07:43:50 cache2 /kernel: looutput: mbuf > > >allocation failed > > >Sep 6 07:44:43 cache2 squid[5735]: > > >aclDecodeProxyAuth: Unsupported proxy-auth sheme, > > >'owqeko=f|xjbd' > > > > > >I thought I've configured my kernel with enough mbuf, > > >but even one-half have not used yet. My netstat -m: > > > > > >22070/22544/81920 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): > > > 20490 mbufs allocated to data > > > 1580 mbufs allocated to packet headers > > >20462/20480/20480 mbuf clusters in use > > >(current/peak/max) > > >46596 Kbytes allocated to network (7% of mb_map in > > >use) > > >87932 requests for memory denied > > >274 requests for memory delayed > > >0 calls to protocol drain routines > > > > > >This problem bothers me, as our http traffic comes > > >from this server, and I have to reconfigure squid > > >processes (the same as restarting I think) to free up > > >mbuf. > > > > > >If you have any idea how to solve this please let me > > >know. Any help of reference would be greatly > > >appreciated. > > > > > >Best regards. > > >-why- > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > >Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > > >http://finance.yahoo.com > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Regards, Ulf. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 > You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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