Subject: Re: increasing NMBCLUSTERS
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/28/2005 09:29:26
> > My machine way up above looks like it's starting again... If I
> > understand the math here...
> >
> > Name Size Requests Fail Releases Pgreq Pgrel Npage Hiwat
> > Minpg Maxpg Idle
> > mbpl 256 44130 0 37383 464 41 423 423
> > 1 inf 1
> > mclpl 2048 10215 0 6484 2444 574 1870 1870
> > 4 32768 4
>
> Continuing to monitor the above webserver:
>
> mbpl 256 179782 0 169941 756 77 679 687
> 1 inf 0
> mclpl 2048 38721 0 30442 6381 2210 4171 4275 4
> 32768 8
>
> 9419 mbufs in use:
> 8515 mbufs allocated to data
> 903 mbufs allocated to packet headers
> 1 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses
> 738 calls to protocol drain routines
Strangely, the machine above which I was having to reboot every
couple of weeks for running out of mbuf clusters has been up for 45
days with no changes to configuration and seemingly no change in
traffic patterns....
mbpl 256 2515234 0 2460965 4656 1195 3461 3477
1 inf 0
mclpl 2048 494591 0 443108 54531 28736 25795 25842 4
32768 8
It's using quite a lot still but is hovering:
53709 mbufs in use:
52586 mbufs allocated to data
1122 mbufs allocated to packet headers
1 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses
10356 calls to protocol drain routines