Re: Crash with bpf
** Reply to note from Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 30 Jul 2003 15:24:53 -0400 > You're probably right Then I'll try the upgrade and see what happens. > although that is a very small number of mbufs. In fact, I happened to think that to. > Are you deliberately setting it low? No. > Maybe by specifying "maxusers" in your kernel config? I have maxusers 0, which should mean "auto", shouldn't it? In fact on another machine I manage I have: 91/528/18304 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 90 mbufs allocated to data 1 mbufs allocated to packet headers 64/216/4576 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 564 Kbytes allocated to network (4% of mb_map in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines but here I've got four times the amount of RAM (0.5GB vs. 128MB). bye & Thanks av. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Crash with bpf
** Reply to note from Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29 Jul 2003 16:16:01 -0400 > > I understand, but upgrading this machine has a cost and I must be > > absolutely sure this will not introduce new problems as previous > > upgrades did. > > I understand, but my time has a cost as well. No doubt about that. As I said in my first message, I *AM* willing to take an upgrade, I'd only like to have a bit more insight. In case this depends on other things, maybe it's a well-known problem, an error of mine, a misconfiguration, maybe about mbufs as you suggested, I don't think the upgrade would matter and/or help. > > >I don't have enough time to go into this in depth, but see if the > > >problem is affected by increasing the number of mbufs. > > > > Nice suggestion, how do I do that? > > Nice sarcasm; the obvious response is that you could read the manual. I had read the handbook, but found this not so clear. I also tried "man 9 mbuf", as suggested in netstat's man page, but this doesn't seem to be available on my system (why?). I was also a bit scared, since it is said to possibly lead to boot time crashes and I don't easily have physical access to the machine (which would then keep crashing and crashing, since the problem would be in the startup configuration files). I did instead produce another crash and measured mbufs usage: several seconds before the crash (I don't think it was more than a minute and a half) "netstat -m" gave: 207/496/4096 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 203 mbufs allocated to data 2 mbufs allocated to packet headers 2 mbufs allocated to fragment reassembly queue headers 198/248/1024 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 620 Kbytes allocated to network (20% of mb_map in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines So I would guess I'm not short on these. Does this answer your suggestion or should I try anyway? If so, I'll try and do this next time I happen to be physically there (and possibly upgrade too). bye & Thanks av. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Crash with bpf
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25 Jul 2003 14:17:40 -0400 >> The problem has started to show after an upgrade to 4.6 or 4.7 I believe (but I >> cannot recall exactly). >> I might as well try an upgrade to 4.8, but I'd rather have more insight. >It's more work to try to track the problem if you're using different >code than (for example, I am on my) system, so upgrading is a help to >the person trying to track it. I understand, but upgrading this machine has a cost and I must be absolutely sure this will not introduce new problems as previous upgrades did. >I don't have enough time to go into this in depth, but see if the >problem is affected by increasing the number of mbufs. Nice suggestion, how do I do that? bye & Thanks av. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Crash with bpf
Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem has started to show after an upgrade to 4.6 or 4.7 I believe (but I > cannot recall exactly). > I might as well try an upgrade to 4.8, but I'd rather have more insight. It's more work to try to track the problem if you're using different code than (for example, I am on my) system, so upgrading is a help to the person trying to track it. I don't have enough time to go into this in depth, but see if the problem is affected by increasing the number of mbufs. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
