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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:56:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Machine becomes non-responsive, only ^T shows it as alive under l 	oad: IPFW, TCP proxying
Message-ID:  <200210251056.g9PAus8k072126@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <freebsd-stable.FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022D4F@mail.sandvine.com>

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Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> wrote:
 > I have an application listening on an ipfw 'fwd' rule.
 > I'm sending ~3K new sessions per second to it. It
 > has to turn around and issue some of these out as
 > a proxy, in response to which some of them the destination
 > host won't exist.
 > 
 > I have RST limiting on. I'm seeing messages like:
 > Limiting open port RST response from 1312 to 200 packets per second
 > 
 > come out sometimes.
 > 
 > After a while of such operation (~1/2 hour), the machine
 > becomes unresponsive: the network interfaces no longer respond,
 > the serial console responds to ^T yielding a status line,
 > but ^C etc do nothing, and the bash which was there won't
 > give me a prompt.

Maybe you're running out of resources, such as mbufs or
mbuf clusters, or filedescriptors or whatever.
What's the output of "netstat -m" and "pstat -T" when the
machine is under load?  Watching "vmstat 5" while the
machine is running might be helpful, too.

Regards
   Oliver

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