On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Paul Gear <p...@gear.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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. Might be worth a try. > 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. Probably not the problem then, I would think. > Are you saying that you regularly run out of MBUFs and are forced to > reboot when you do? Before setting them to 131072, yes. Since making the change, my longest uptime is 72 days, 15:43 with netstat -m: 71214/2006/73220 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 71107/1045/72152/131072 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 71107/701 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/90/90/65536 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 12/1324/1336/32768 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/16384 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 184411K/15369K/199780K 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 I record the output of netstat -m daily, and even at 72 days uptime it was still growing geometrically. db _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
