Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Wahyu Hidayat <wahyuhid@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running out of mbuf Message-ID: <20020906031720.7000.qmail@web40006.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020905193909.I33007-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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--- Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: > Don't CC: questions and stable. Redirecting to > -questions. > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Wahyu Hidayat wrote: > > > Thanks for all your immediate reply. > > > > Sure I have raised NMBCLUSTERS (in my netstat > shows to > > 20480). > > > > What is the explanation for my previous post about > max > > mbufs has not reached, but it already shows about > mbuf > > allocation failed ? What if I increase nmbclusters > but > > this problems still occurs ? > > You should make sure you aren't experiencing network > latency or > degredation.... slow network causes data to bottle > up in the kernel and > will run you out. Are your users local or on modems? My users on local fast ethernet networks. The traffic come from a cat6k5 under cisco Server Load Balancing (tm) configuration, and there is another server running 4.6-R, which currently down because under this circumstance it just hang, without logging any messages. > Otherwise, keep jacking up NMBCLUSTERS until it > quiets or you get to > 80,000 or so ... after that you might consider a > new machine to split the > load. Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try, and keep this informed afterwards. > > > > > >20462/20480/20480 mbuf clusters in use > > Note you're running out of _clusters_. Best regards -why- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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