Re: Transparent proxy

[Bolanle Akinpelu <akinpelu at skannet.com>]

great. that's a lot easier, I will try it.

Thanks.

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Antonio Godinho wrote:

> 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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> > > about less and less until he knows absolutely
> > > everything about nothing.
> > >
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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
>
> An expert is one who knows more and more
> about less and less until he knows absolutely
> everything about nothing.
>
>
>

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Bolanle Akinpelu
General Data Engineering Services Ltd.
18b Oshin Road, Kongi Bodija, Ibadan.
email: akinpelu at skannet.com
phone: 234-2-8105156
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