when are mbuf clusters released?

2002-12-30 Thread Jeff Behl
running apache-2.0.42 we're running into mbuf cluster exhaustion. going by what 'man tuning' says: We recommend values between 1024 and 4096 for machines with mod- erates amount of memory, and between 4096 and 32768 for machines with greater amounts of memory. Under no circumstances should you s

Re: when are mbuf clusters released?

2002-12-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Jeff Behl wrote: > 5066/52544/256000 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): > 5031/50612/64000 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > > is there some strange interaction going on between apace2 and bsd? > killing apache caused the mbuf clusters to start draining, but only > slow

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eugene Grosbein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Is there a good reason for : not supporting full-duplex? I don't think 3c589 supports full duplex at the hardware level. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net"

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 01:52:35PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Is there a good reason for > : not supporting full-duplex? > I don't think 3c589 supports full duplex at the hardware level. Well, if I boot both machines to Win9x, I can setup Intel card to 10Mbps/full-duplex and I can setup my

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eugene Grosbein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : So I conclude 3C589D does support full duplex at the hardware level. I guess that someone will need to add support for it to FreeBSD then. The 3C1 docs I have don't appear to have instructions on how to do th

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > So I conclude 3C589D does support full duplex at the hardware level. > > Eugene Grosbein Ok, I'm getting confused here... You say you're using a 3C589D, which is detected by if_ep_pccard.c as such: case 0x9058: /* 3C589 */ r

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > So I conclude 3C589D does support full duplex at the hardware level. : : You say you're using a 3C589D, which is detected by if_ep_pccard.c as : such: : : case 0x9058: /* 3C589 */ :

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Are these actually both the same card, or are PCI and PCCARD IDs > : unrelated? If they are the same card, then clearly the solution is to > : make if_xl work with the card instead of if_ep. :) > > These aren't the same. > > The vx driver should rea

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : >From what I've read, the vortex cards do resemble the older Etherlink : IIIs, so yes those two could probably be merged. They are merged in NetBSD. I think Matt Dodd has some patches that do this. : Howeve

Re: ep(4) does not support mediaopt full-duplex

2002-12-30 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > The vx driver should really be if_ep_pci acccording to Matt Dodd. > if_xl might also be a if_ep_pci driver, but I'm not 100% about that. > Matt knows for sure. 'ep' and 'vx' are PIO. The 3c900 and 3c905 will operate in PIO mode but will do DMA so are d