Hi Jack, On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel_at_gmail.com> wrote: > It has nothing to do with load, it has to do with the prerequisites to init > your interfaces. > The amount you need is fixed, it doesn't vary with load. Every RX descriptor > needs one, > so its simple math, number-of-interfaces X number-of-queues X size of the > ring. > I guess the question is more: why would I need N*M (M > 1) nmbclusters with driver version X when driver version X-1 worked perfectly fine, from my daily-average-user point of view, with N nmbclusters ? A more rude version might be "Why the frak my network adapter stopped working with the default setting ?" :) - Arnaud > If you have other network interfaces beside Intel they also consume mbufs > remember. > > Jack > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Michael Schmiedgen <schmiedgen_at_gmx.net>wrote: > >> On 03.05.2011 23:24, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >>> If you get the setup receive structures fail, then increase the >>> nmbclusters. >>> >>> If you use standard MTU then what you need are mbufs, and standard size >>> clusters (2K). >>> Only when you use jumbo frames will you need larger. >>> >>> You must configure enough, its that simple. >>> >> >> I doubled the nmbclusters as well. But nothing happened. >> >> I have no load on this machine and nothing special >> configured. >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Tue May 03 2011 - 21:34:41 UTC
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