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Date:      Sun, 8 Sep 2002 08:11:57 +0530
From:      "Unix Tools" <unixtools@hotmail.com>
To:        "Wahyu Hidayat" <wahyuhid@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: running out of mbuf
Message-ID:  <OE530uTfiErVEvTtwWU00009946@hotmail.com>
References:  <20020906013248.24028.qmail@web40007.mail.yahoo.com>

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We had the same problem
changed the NMBCLUSTERS value in the kernel config file and recompiled the
kernel.

That fixed it.
options         NMBCLUSTERS=4096


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wahyu Hidayat" <wahyuhid@yahoo.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 07:02 AM
Subject: running out of mbuf


> Hello,
>
> Firstly I am not a member of this mailling-list, so
> please CC to me, or if this is not the right forum,
> give me a direction where I  could post it.
>
> I have a machine running squid cache-server and apache
> to answer squidGuard redirectors. When running under
> heavy load it complains about mbuf:
>
> Sep  6 07:42:40 cache2 squid[5735]: aclMatchProxyAuth:
> user 'imon' tries to use multple IP addresses!
> Sep  6 07:43:22 cache2 squid[5735]:
> aclDecodeProxyAuth: Disallowing empty passwo
> rd,user is ''
> Sep  6 07:43:26 cache2 last message repeated 2 times
> Sep  6 07:43:50 cache2 /kernel: looutput: mbuf
> allocation failed
> Sep  6 07:44:43 cache2 squid[5735]:
> aclDecodeProxyAuth: Unsupported proxy-auth sheme,
> 'owqeko=f|xjbd'
>
> I thought I've configured my kernel with enough mbuf,
> but even one-half have not used yet. My netstat -m:
>
> 22070/22544/81920 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):
>         20490 mbufs allocated to data
>         1580 mbufs allocated to packet headers
> 20462/20480/20480 mbuf clusters in use
> (current/peak/max)
> 46596 Kbytes allocated to network (7% of mb_map in
> use)
> 87932 requests for memory denied
> 274 requests for memory delayed
> 0 calls to protocol drain routines
>
> This problem bothers me, as our http traffic comes
> from this server, and I have to reconfigure squid
> processes (the same as restarting I think) to free up
> mbuf.
>
> If you have any idea how to solve this please let me
> know. Any help of reference would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Best regards.
> -why-
>
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