On Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:00:35 am Traiano Welcome wrote: > Hi John > > > > On 22/03/2012 14:16, "John Baldwin" <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >On Thursday, March 22, 2012 6:03:21 am Traiano Welcome wrote: > >> Hi List > >> > >> I've been seeing the following in the messages log of my freebsd syslog > >> server for quite some time now: > >> > >> --- > >> Mar 20 12:19:12 syslog2 syslog-ng[35313]: I/O error occurred while > >> writing; fd='12', error='No buffer space available (55)' > >> Mar 20 12:19:12 syslog2 syslog-ng[35313]: Connection broken; > >> time_reopen='60' > >> Mar 20 12:19:12 syslog2 syslog-ng[35313]: I/O error occurred while > >> writing; fd='13', error='No buffer space available (55)' > >> Mar 20 12:19:12 syslog2 syslog-ng[35313]: Connection broken; > >> time_reopen='60' > >> --- > >> > >> These happen at a frequency of about 7 per minute on average. See > >>attached > >> trend graphs for an idea of the volume of traffic we're doing, as well > >>as > >> the memory and cpu utilisation trends on this server during this period. > >> As can be seen from the graphs, load does not seem to be the issue. > >> Occasionally during the week, the system freezes and requires a reboot, > >>I > >> think it's related to the above message, though I'm not sure. > >> > >> My question is: What does this error mean, and how can I resolve it? > >> > >> I have tried to frame this as an operating system kernel resource issue, > >> and experimented with increasing the freebsd kernel sysctls for UDP > >> performance: > > > >It means that the network driver has "filled" up with packets. Are you > >using > >igb(4)? We have to crank the number of descriptors assigned to igb to > >the max > >to workaround this at work (we get DNS timeouts during a simple boot > >otherwise). hw.igb.maxtxd is the tunable you would set. The max value > >you > >can set it to is 4096. > > > Thanks for the clue. It seems igb is indeed being used. However, I not > that when I try to list this tunable, I don't get anything: > > --- > [root@syslog2]# sysctl -a | grep igb > [root@syslog2]# > --- > > > --- > [root@syslog2 /boot]# sysctl hw.igb.maxtxd=4000 > sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.igb.maxtxd'
> --- > > > Is this due to the way igb is compiled into the kernel, or am I tuning in > the wrong place :-) You need to put it in /boot/loader.conf and then reboot. Do try using 4096 rather than 4000. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
