Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:06:27 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 net performance and panic with 1000's of sockets open Message-ID: <199807172006.NAA15523@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:49:31 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717154849.1098A-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
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> Using another test program I found that FreeBSD would panic. The program >opened 1000 sockets to the squid box and requested a file from the web >through each. The machine would panic with a page fault everytime I ran You need more networking buffers. Something like: options "NMBCLUSTERS=8000" might work, but this depends on how large the socket buffers are for each of the open connections. Later versions of FreeBSD will panic immediately when running out of buffers, rather than panicing randomly a few seconds later. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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