igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

[Jack Vogel]

The message is pretty straightforward, its only cause is the inability
of the driver to get the necessary clusters to populate the RX rings.

After you get the error do a `netstat -m` and see what the state of the
9K jumbo pool is, for that is the size you would be using.

Depending on the specific device type you may have up to 8 rings
per interface, and with a ring size of 1K...

It does seem like you should have enough, but maybe something else
in your system is using the pool? As I said, look at netstat, it should give
you the truth, and then adjust the allocated size to fit your needs.

Jack


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Gerrit Kühn <gerrit.kuehn at aei.mpg.de>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I get the error message above when trying to go for jumbo frames (mtu
> 9000) on a system here. I found a lot of comments on this, but they all
> state that this is due to a too low setting for mbufs in FreeBSD8/9
> settings.
> However, I have 10-stable here, and the settings look rather high to me:
>
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 1014856
> kern.ipc.maxmbufmem: 8313700352
> kern.ipc.nmbufs: 6495090
> kern.ipc.nmbjumbop: 507428
> kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9: 451047
> kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16: 338284
>
> FreeBSD mclane 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #5 r261710: Mon Feb 10
> 16:55:29 CET 2014 root at mclane.rt.aei.uni-hannover.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
>
>
> Is this still too low? I have a 6core machine with 6 igb interfaces, and I
> cannot even get one of these set to mtu 9000 without getting "Could not
> setup receive structures".
>
>
> cu
>   Gerrit
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