Ok How can I increase value of mbufs ? I think I will need to increase value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters. value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters of the server is 51200. What is the limit for kern.ipc.nmbclusters ? What size can I increase it ? The server has 2 gbyte ram, p4 2.4 Ghz 2 cpus.
Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Halid Faith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 9:10 PM Subject: Re: Why do I get this message by the server ? > "Halid Faith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a freebsd5.4 server. I sometimes get a message on the screen as below; > > > > kernel: ipfw: pullup failed > > > > What cause this problem cause ? > > There weren't enough mbufs available for ipfw to properly inspect a > packet. So one packet was dropped by the firewall that perhaps would > not have been if an extra mbuf were available. It's not a problem in > itself, but if happening extremely often, you should allocate more > mbufs. > > > I see the below lines when I type netstat -ni > > > > 1# netstat -ni > > Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll > > bge0 1500 <Link#1> 00:13:d4:51:5d:e9 1618711264 0 4211116941 0 0 > > bge0 1500 212.175.51.68 212.175.51.70 3389522 - 8161 - - > > bge0 1500 fe80:1::213:d fe80:1::213:d4ff: 0 - 3 - - > > bge1 1500 <Link#2> 00:13:d4:51:5d:ea 307271458 0 808964464 0 0 > > bge1 1500 192.168.12.1 192.168.12.63 2276942 - 82504 - - > > bge1 1500 fe80:2::213:d fe80:2::213:d4ff: 0 - 4 - - > > lo0 16384 <Link#3> 1465002 0 1465002 0 0 > > lo0 16384 127 127.0.0.1 1463512 - 3566 - - > > lo0 16384 ::1/128 ::1 0 - 0 - - > > lo0 16384 fe80:3::1/64 fe80:3::1 0 - 0 - - > > > > sysctl net.inet.ip | grep queue > > net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen: 50 > > net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops: 19512403 > > > > What shall I do ? > > You don't have to do anything. You could turn off the "verbose" flag > for ipfw, and then you wouldn't see these messages. Or you could > increase the number of mbufs available in the kernel. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
