Re: Acceptable MBUF levels?

2000-01-29 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Doug White wrote: >That would be correct, at least looking at the appropriate code in >/sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c. The read-only sysctls kern.ipc.nmbclusters and >kern.ipc.nmbufs hold the max mbuf clusters and the max mbufs, respecively. >kern.ipc.nmbufs is bound to an nmbufs va

Re: Acceptable MBUF levels?

2000-01-28 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Doug White wrote: > > >When people refer to mbufs, they refer to mbuf clusters, of which there's > >a fixed number. The kernel will allocate more mbufs as necessary. > > Uhm, actually, mbufs are also allocated from mb_ma

Re: Acceptable MBUF levels?

2000-01-26 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Doug White wrote: >When people refer to mbufs, they refer to mbuf clusters, of which there's >a fixed number. The kernel will allocate more mbufs as necessary. Uhm, actually, mbufs are also allocated from mb_map. Thus, they are also capped. (Unless I'm missing so

Re: Acceptable MBUF levels?

2000-01-26 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > I was just pondering recently as to what the acceptable levels of size and > amount of mbufs in use are. I vaguely seem to recall that if you run out > of mbufs, the machine will either panic or reboot. My reason for asking is > simple: > > root:ninbo

Acceptable MBUF levels?

2000-01-26 Thread Kris Kirby
I was just pondering recently as to what the acceptable levels of size and amount of mbufs in use are. I vaguely seem to recall that if you run out of mbufs, the machine will either panic or reboot. My reason for asking is simple: root:ninbox: {13} netstat -m 767/1152 mbufs in use: 509