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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 2003 11:52:58 +0900 (KST)
From:      CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.FreeBSD.org>
To:        bmilekic@unixdaemons.com
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance tuning hints of gigabit networking?
Message-ID:  <20030304.115258.21844180.cjh@kr.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030303180014.A7317@unixdaemons.com>
References:  <20030226.220551.10329540.cjh@kr.FreeBSD.org> <20030303180014.A7317@unixdaemons.com>

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That's 2GB machine. How much RAM I need more?

mbuf clusters is full(observed by netstat -m) at peak time(3-4
hours). netstat -m output below is when the connection is low, but
please see the peak value of mbuf clusters.

From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>
Subject: Re: Performance tuning hints of gigabit networking?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:00:14 -0500

> 
> 
> You're not running out of mbufs or clusters, you're out of RAM.
> Don't bump up nmbclusters anymore because you don't need to; instead,
> add more RAM.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:05:51PM +0900, CHOI Junho wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am looking for a good resource for kernel tuning on very high
> > bandwidth HTTP servers(avg 500Mbit/sec, peak 950Mbit/sec). Today I
> > faced very unusual situation with 950Mbit/sec bandwidth!
> > 
> > > netstat -m
> > 16962/93488/262144 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):
> >         16962 mbufs allocated to data
> > 16952/65536/65536 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
> > 154444 Kbytes allocated to network (14% of mb_map in use)
> > 512627 requests for memory denied
> > 2614 requests for memory delayed
> > 0 calls to protocol drain routines
> > 
> > I set kern.ipc.nmbclusters=65536, but it overflowed. This is P-IV Xeon
> > 1.8G, 2GB RAM, and one Intel 1000baseSX(em driver) machine running
> > 4.7-RELEASE-pX. This server is running only one service, HTTP. I use
> > thttpd, since apache doesn't work in such a high load. thttpd is highly
> > amazing, just give <1 load in any time.
> > 
> > Once I tried to increase kern.ipc.nmbclusters to 131072 or
> > higher(multiple of 65536 or 32768, tuning(7) only cites about 32768
> > case..), it fails to boot kernel when 262144, or kernel panic in
> > somewhat higher load when 131072, so I gave up other changes and fall
> > back to 65536.
> > 
> > What is a good way to calcurate this value safely? Here is another
> > hint, /etc/sysctl.conf:
> > 
> > net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0
> > kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2048000
> > kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096
> > kern.ipc.maxsockets=60000
> > kern.maxfiles=65536
> > kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
> > net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1
> > net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
> > net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65535
> > net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65535
> > net.inet.udp.recvspace=65535
> > net.inet.udp.maxdgram=57344
> > net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1
> > net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=1
> > net.inet.ip.redirect=0
> > net.inet6.ip6.redirect=0
> > net.link.ether.inet.max_age=1200
> > net.inet.ip.sourceroute=0 
> > net.inet.ip.accept_sourceroute=0 
> > net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=0
> > net.inet.icmp.maskrepl=0
> > net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable=1
> > 
> > kernel configuration is not specially tuned, except DEVICE_POLLING and
> > HZ=2000.
> > 
> > --
> > CHOI Junho <http://www.kr.FreeBSD.org/~cjh>;     KFUG <cjh at kr.FreeBSD.org>
> > FreeBSD Project <cjh at FreeBSD.org>        Web Data Bank <cjh at wdb.co.kr>
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> 
> -- 
> Bosko Milekic * bmilekic@unixdaemons.com * bmilekic@FreeBSD.org

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