Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-23 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:01:23 -0800 Jack Vogel wrote about Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again): JV> Yes, its strange, the mbuf resources look fine. JV> Can you show the dmesg record from a boot that JV> includes the failure please? Well, the machine is in production, I ca

RE: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread David DeSimone
reeBSD Net Subject: Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again) The message is pretty straightforward, its only cause is the inability of the driver to get the necessary clusters to populate the RX rings. After you get the error do a `netstat -m` and see what the state of the 9K jumbo po

Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, its strange, the mbuf resources look fine. Can you show the dmesg record from a boot that includes the failure please? Jack On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:22:31 -0800 Jack Vogel wrote > about Re: igb Could not setup receive stru

Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread Jack Vogel
g] > On Behalf Of Jack Vogel > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 10:23 AM > To: Gerrit Kühn > Cc: FreeBSD Net > Subject: Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again) > > The message is pretty straightforward, its only cause is the inability > of the driver to get the neces

Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:22:31 -0800 Jack Vogel wrote about Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again): JV> After you get the error do a `netstat -m` and see what the state of the JV> 9K jumbo pool is, for that is the size you would be using. Hm... --- root@mclane:~ # netstat -m

Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread Jack Vogel
The message is pretty straightforward, its only cause is the inability of the driver to get the necessary clusters to populate the RX rings. After you get the error do a `netstat -m` and see what the state of the 9K jumbo pool is, for that is the size you would be using. Depending on the specific

igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I get the error message above when trying to go for jumbo frames (mtu 9000) on a system here. I found a lot of comments on this, but they all state that this is due to a too low setting for mbufs in FreeBSD8/9 settings. However, I have 10-stable here, and the settings look rather high to m