Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:51:10 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Sean T. Lamont" <lamont@abstractsoft.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Running out of mbuf's! Message-ID: <199511241851.KAA00234@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 95 09:22:27 PST." <9511241722.AA12014@zebu.serv.net>
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> >I'm having a problem with my FreeBSD-based news server which I'm hoping >you'll be able to help me with. Whenever the mbuf usage count reaches >'137' (as acquired from netstat -m), the system gets a 'no buffer space >available' message, effectively rendering it useless until reboot. In looking >at config.c, I found the build option for "Mbuf clusters", which I've >adjusted. Problem is, this doesn't seem to do much ; when the "crash" >occurs, the number of mbuf clusters is not a high number (on some occasions >it's zero). I can't find anywhere else in the kernel source tree which >might specify the number of mbuf's allocated to the system. How much memory does this machine have? FreeBSD shouldn't come anywhere near running out of mbufs until you get into the thousands in-use. What type of ethernet/network adapter do you have? -DG
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