Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:07:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatic Reboots and Locking up. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960415230536.20448A-100000@aries.ai.net> In-Reply-To: <199604160133.SAA01135@Root.COM>
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> This sounds like you are running out of mbuf clusters. Watch the amount in- > use closely with netstat -m. On a busy WWW server, you should add: > > options "NMBCLUSTERS=4096" > > ...to your kernel config file to avoid running out of them. The default > calculation is based on maxusers and is intended for general purpose use of > which a WWW server is not. I will try this immediately! Thank you so much. I had the number of users set to 96, but obviously this wasn't enough. What is an NMBCLUSTER and how will I know if 4096 is adequate? Thanks again. > You really should be running 2.1-stable on this machine. -current is for > developers and is known to be unstable. > If I could install -stable by off the net via a single boot floppy I would have. Actually system this machine is replacing was running 2.1-RELEASE, but that machine was having all kinds of vnode errors so I didn't want to take the chance. Paul
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