On 29/06/12 14:26, David Burgess wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Paul Gear <p...@gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >> What should be my next troubleshooting step?
Hi David, > memtest? I ran a firmware/BIOS upgrade and followed that with a full (successful) memtest before installing pfSense. > Different NICs? I don't really have any other suitable ones at my disposal. I can probably ask the client to buy one, but i have 5 of these servers and i really would rather not buy extra NICs for all of them. Would i be better off virtualising this system on VMware? That way i could handle all the VLAN tagging in the hypervisor, and the NIC presented to the system would be an Intel E1000 instead of a Broadcom. The VMware ESXi 5 and Linux drivers for these NICs are rock-solid in my experience. > Have you looked at your MBUF usage (netstat -m)? My netstat -m output is shown below. It's not even close to the limits. Keep in mind that this is just a test system. There is no traffic going through it. Except for my initial configuration on Tuesday, basically nothing has been done to the box except for ping & SNMP from our NMS. > I get similar > symptoms after running out of MBUFs, but if you followed the first > step in the doc you linked then you should have plenty. I use > "kern.ipc.nmbclusters="131072"" here and it takes me ~130 days to top > out, but YMMV. Are you saying that you regularly run out of MBUFs and are forced to reboot when you do? Regards, Paul ----- 8< ----- $ netstat -m 16323/1730/18053 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 16322/1476/17798/131072 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 16321/831 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/54/54/65536 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/32768 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/16384 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 40805K/4033K/44838K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 0 calls to protocol drain routines _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
