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Date:      Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:56:19 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: High CPU usage when forwarding packets
Message-ID:  <20030307225619.GC8357@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3E68EBCF.E19242C1@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030307131038.GA919@fourtytwo.brucec.backnet> <3E68EBCF.E19242C1@mindspring.com>

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On 2003-03-07 10:58, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Bruce Cran wrote:
>> Also, I'm getting several thousand 'lnc0: Missed packet -- no
>> receive buffer' messages.  Could this be the problem, or is the
>> system just not powerful enough do nat?  The sis0 card is 100MBit
>> PCI, while the lcn0 is 10MBit ISA.
>
> The "no receive buffers available" message happens when the
> system runs out of mbufs.
>
> There are a lot of reasons this could happen, but the proximal
> cause is you didn't tune the number NMBCLUSTERS, et. al. high
> enough.  You should try rebuilding your kernel with a larger
> number.

Aren't the following two tunable from the loader too?

  giorgos@gothmog[00:53]/home/giorgos$ sysctl -a | grep nmb[cu][fl]
  kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 17216
  kern.ipc.nmbufs: 34432

Just wondering, since I haven't had today a reasonn to reboot yet.

- Giorgos


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