Lots VLANs caouses ngctl to fail

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 15 03:16:39 PDT 2005


On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:23:10PM +0400, Nikolay Arhangelskiy wrote:
N> Hello Maxim,
N> 
N> >>   I need to operate with hundreds VLANs on FreeBSD box (5.3).
N> >>   Using small script I create 250 VLANs, exec "ngctl list" - no
N> >>   problem, ngctl lists all 250 VLANs.
N> >>   After creating another 250 VLANs ngctl start to fail with message:
N> >>
N> >>     ngctl: send msg: No buffer space available
N> >>
N> >>   Is there are any limitations in ngctl on objects count?
N> >>   Or any kernel side limitations?
N> 
N> MK> Increase net.graph.recvspace and net.graph.maxdgram.
N> 
N> Very good, this solve the problem. Thank you.

Anyway, there is still limit in RELENG_5. You can not obtain node
listing via ngctl, if there are more than or equal to 911 nodes.

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