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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:09:39 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Mike Grissom <mikeyg@igalaxy.net>
Cc:        Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mbuf cluster allocation failed Error
Message-ID:  <3C7AFC72.A17D7857@centtech.com>
References:  <017001c1be0e$0057acd0$53061b9d@univr.it> <3C7A53C0.C2E5ED69@centtech.com> <017f01c1be0e$937ac240$53061b9d@univr.it> <3C7A556F.A403A30C@centtech.com> <021f01c1be0f$da45d100$53061b9d@univr.it> <20020226013335.GC624@ibb1150.ibb.uu.nl> <3C7AF7AC.D119D0EF@morganstanley.com> <001701c1be72$03003920$0301a8c0@mikeyg>

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True! Be careful because your machine may not boot if you whack it too hard.
(so to speak).

Eric



Mike Grissom wrote:

> The highest NMBCLUSTERS stated in LINT is 32768, just a warning.  Read the
> LINT file
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Tayer" <Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com>
> To: <mipam@ibb.net>
> Cc: "Alberto Manzoni" <alberto.manzoni@univr.it>; <anderson@centtech.com>;
> <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Mbuf cluster allocation failed Error
>
> > 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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