Hi, i've bit of an understanding issue with the netstat output which seems to condradict itself a bit. One of our production machines has a moderate network load (24mbit on a 100mbit device) and quite frequently shows a packet loss rate around 2% on peak times.
A netstat -s -p ip output looks like this: 1459405058 packets sent from this host 0 packets sent with fabricated ip header 411987593 output packets dropped due to no bufs, etc. So there are a lot of packets dropped due to buffers. But the mbuffer statistic with netstat -m shows no sign of this: 3470/2095/5565 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 1536/1078/2614/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 1536/145 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 3939K/2679K/6619K 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) 0/7/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 5646 calls to protocol drain routines There are no mbufs denied ever, the mbuf max is far above the total amount used so i'm a bit at a loss what's the problem here but it seems to be some kind of buffer issue. I already raised kern.ipc.maxsockbuf to 16777216 and the nmbclusters is still at 25600 which seems fine according to the mbuf statistic above. This is on a GENERIC FreeBSD 6.2 system with an em network card at 100mbit. Greetings, Sascha _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"