little lost with my netstat -m output

2005-07-16 Thread Justin Robertson
I have a couple of issues that I'm somewhat concerned about based on some netstat output results. I have a few boxes running 4.11-STABLE that provide this; FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed May 4 09:49:52 PDT 2005 (i386) # netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory A

little lost with my netstat -m output

2005-07-16 Thread Justin Robertson
I have a couple of issues that I'm somewhat concerned about based on some netstat output results. I have a few boxes running 4.11-STABLE that provide this; FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed May 4 09:49:52 PDT 2005 (i386) # netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory And

6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Robertson
So, this may be the wrong list to post to, but it seemed the most appropriate. If someone could suggest a better location to move/cross post to let me know. I've been running some tests with using FreeBSD to filter and rate limit traffic. My first thoughts were to goto the latest stable re

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Robertson
I've actually already done everything you've suggested with little or no impact at all. One point where we have different results is with ADAPTIVE_GIANT, I actually noticed a drop of about 50kpps thruput when disabling it. Mike Tancsa wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:03:41 -0800, in sentex.li

Re: Packet rate limiter

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Robertson
Newp. You're stuck to good old bps with ipfw or bps/cpse (connections per second established) with pf. The other method would be to use cisco netflow export data from a router being polled - then limiting traffic with one of the methods mentioned above... or just place pps limits on your router