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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:54:44 +0800
From:      Victor Tayer <Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mbuf cluster allocation failed Error
Message-ID:  <3C7C82B4.A2190AB@morganstanley.com>

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yup i agree. had that error also when i was still working for an isp.
that server was used as a transparent proxy with a more than thousand
subs. all i did was recompiled the kernel to support NMBCLUSTERS=65536
(max) at first then trimmed it down so i would not be raping my box very

hard. :P

victor "jett" tayer

Mipam wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:19:43PM +0100, Alberto Manzoni wrote:
> > This is the output of "netstat -m"
> >
> > 502/1088/34816 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):
> >         326 mbufs allocated to data
> >         176 mbufs allocated to packet headers
> > 324/756/8704 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
> > 1784 Kbytes allocated to network (6% of mb_map in use)
> > 0 requests for memory denied
> > 0 requests for memory delayed
> > 0 calls to protocol drain routines
>
> Hmm you could recompile your kernel and add
> options NMBCLUSTERS=[high value] in it to cope with this
> problem.
> Bye,
>
> Mipam.
>
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