Re: Transparent proxy

["Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>]

Is it really necessary to recompile your kernel? Canīt you put these
settings in sysctl.conf?

Cheers,



> Hi,
>
> I had encountered the same problem before running squid on FreeBSD. It
> means the buffer allocation in your FreeBSD kernel is in-adequate. I
> increased the value of the buffer and recompiled the kernel and I was
> ok.
>
> You can use sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters to check the current buffer
> allocation. I tweaked mine from the default 1024k to 8192k. You could
> use more or less. To change, I edited /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c
> looked for NMBCLUSTERS and changed the entry from 512 *(16 bla, bla)
> to read # define NMBCLUSTERS 8192.
>
> After the changes, recompile your kernel and should be ok.
>
> Pls back-up the uipc_mbuf.c file before making any changes.
>
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Antonio Godinho wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have setup a transparent proxy using squid 24 and FreeBSD 4.7. It
> > works normally but after a few minutes I start getting the message:
> >
> > Nov 29 09:40:55 servername /kernel: All mbuf clusters exhausted,
> > please see tuning(7).
> >
> > repeatedly on the monitor. Does anyone know What is causing
> > this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Antonio Godinho
> > B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE, CCNA
> > Address:Av. Julius Nyerere 947 3rd floor esq
> > Maputo - Mozambique
> > Phone  : 258-82-300392
> > e-mail : ANTONIO at nambu.uem.mz
> >
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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE, CCNA
Address:Av. Julius Nyerere 947 3rd floor esq
Maputo - Mozambique
Phone  : 258-82-300392
e-mail : ANTONIO at nambu.uem.mz

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about less and less until he knows absolutely
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