From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 12 13: 7: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B752E154B5 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 11xGCn-000EbQ-00; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:06:57 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:06:53 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Greg Prosser Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: SYN Hardening patches? / SYN Code in 3.4-RC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Greg Prosser wrote: > clusters - adjust NMBCLUSTERS or increase maxusers!'. I had maxusers at 256 > at that point, and had 'options NMBCLUSTERS=2048' in the kernel as well -- I hope you realize that 2048 is quite a small number of mbufs. I'm not surprised your servers runs out so quickly. You won't be able to handle any serious amount of network traffic with so few mbufs. Setting maxusers to 256 isn't help you any at all, btw. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message