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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:31:15 +0200
From:      Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
To:        "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Niu Zhixiong <kaiaixi@gmail.com>, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>, Bill Yuan <bycn82@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: A problem on TCP in High RTT Environment.
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On 12 Aug 2014, at 10:02, Eggert, Lars <lars@netapp.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> On 2014-8-12, at 1:52, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Michael Tuexen
>> <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> wrote:
>>> If I remember correctly, I increased
>>> kern.ipc.nmbufs and kern.ipc.nmbclusters in /boot/loader.conf
>>=20
>> I believe, you just need to set kern.ipc.nmbclusters (max mbuf
>> clusters allowed) and kern.ipc.nmbufs (max mbufs allowed) should be
>> adjusted based on that.
>=20
> I bumped kern.ipc.nmbclusters by a factor of 100 (from 2036224 to =
203622400). As Hiren said, kern.ipc.nmbufs auto-adjusted (from 13031835 =
to 205111860).
Just to double check: You changed it in /boot/loader.conf, right?
>=20
> However, I still see "requests for mbufs denied" immediately after =
reboot.
>=20
> root@laurel:~ # netstat -m
> 12280/1580/13860 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
> 12279/827/13106/203622400 mbuf clusters in use =
(current/cache/total/max)
> 12279/819 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use =
(current/cache)
> 0/3/3/1018111 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use =
(current/cache/total/max)
> 0/0/0/301662 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
> 0/0/0/169685 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
> 27628K/2061K/29689K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
> 253/5481/12473 requests for mbufs denied =
(mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
> 0/0/0 requests for mbufs delayed (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
> 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters delayed (4k/9k/16k)
> 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
> 0 requests for sfbufs denied
> 0 requests for sfbufs delayed
> 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
>=20
> I just noticed that the total "mbufs in use" didn't seem to have =
increase when I did the 100x scaling of kern.ipc.nmbclusters (and =
kern.ipc.nmbufs auto-adjusted). Neither did "bytes allocated to =
network". Is that expected?
I don't think so...

Best regards
Michael
>=20
> Lars




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