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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:02:21 -0800
From:      "Mike Grissom" <mikeyg@igalaxy.net>
To:        <Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mbuf cluster allocation failed Error
Message-ID:  <001701c1be72$03003920$0301a8c0@mikeyg>
References:  <017001c1be0e$0057acd0$53061b9d@univr.it> <3C7A53C0.C2E5ED69@centtech.com> <017f01c1be0e$937ac240$53061b9d@univr.it> <3C7A556F.A403A30C@centtech.com> <021f01c1be0f$da45d100$53061b9d@univr.it> <20020226013335.GC624@ibb1150.ibb.uu.nl> <3C7AF7AC.D119D0EF@morganstanley.com>

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The highest NMBCLUSTERS stated in LINT is 32768, just a warning.  Read the
LINT file

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Tayer" <Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com>
To: <mipam@ibb.net>
Cc: "Alberto Manzoni" <alberto.manzoni@univr.it>; <anderson@centtech.com>;
<freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Mbuf cluster allocation failed Error


> yup i agree. had that error also when i was still working for an isp.
> that server was used as a transparent proxy with a more than thousand
> subs. all i did was recompiled the kernel to support NMBCLUSTERS=65536
> (max) at first then trimmed it down so i would not be raping my box very
> hard. :P
>
> victor "jett" tayer
>
> Mipam wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:19:43PM +0100, Alberto Manzoni wrote:
> > > This is the output of "netstat -m"
> > >
> > > 502/1088/34816 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):
> > >         326 mbufs allocated to data
> > >         176 mbufs allocated to packet headers
> > > 324/756/8704 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
> > > 1784 Kbytes allocated to network (6% of mb_map in use)
> > > 0 requests for memory denied
> > > 0 requests for memory delayed
> > > 0 calls to protocol drain routines
> >
> > Hmm you could recompile your kernel and add
> > options NMBCLUSTERS=[high value] in it to cope with this
> > problem.
> > Bye,
> >
> > Mipam.
> >
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