Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:09:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: socket buffers Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970225190803.5802Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970225123725.7811A-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, spork wrote: > On a slightly unrelated note, I have a 2.1.7 machine running erpcd for 4 > Xylogics Remote Annexes. After installing their latest software > (R3.1/R11.2) I see that now it is using TCP rather than UDP, which is > fine with me, I guess, but ever since that, a netstat -m shows 66% of > mbufs used, which seems rather high. Right now that is the only thing > this box is doing, but later this week, it will be a mail hub, primary > DNS, a POP server, and doing some light NFS exports. I fear that that > number reported in netstat -m will go high enough to cause trouble... I would just try it. It really depends on how much mbuf re-use you get. On my workstation, I have 42% in use, and that's doing basically nothing for most of the day. > What is the recommended way of increasing mbufs, and what is a good > starting point? Are there any other variables that should change as well? When things break it it gets up to 95% or so, then I would consider it :) I'm not the mbuf pro though, you might try asking hackers@freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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