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    SG-1100 - [zone: mbuf_cluster] kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Check the mbuf usage in Status > Monitoring. Is it climbing?

      It's already quite high there. What traffic is using that firewall?

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        jvmack22 @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10

        Not much:

        • 2 workstations with VPN connecting to ext.office where servers are running. Nextcloud, Zimbra etc.
        • When workstations are not running, some 2-3 mobile phones at a time max. now and then. Thats it.
        • a satelite receiver connected with CCca*m to decode channels

        The only difference with the fresh install is that i've installed PfBlocker.
        Below the stats after 20 hours with PfBlocker disabled:

        15037/1733/16770 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
        5391/959/6350/59797 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
        5391/959 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache)
        1/761/762/29898 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
        0/0/0/8858 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
        0/0/0/4983 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
        14558K/5395K/19953K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
        0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
        0/0/0 requests for mbufs delayed (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
        0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters delayed (4k/9k/16k)
        0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
        0 sendfile syscalls
        0 sendfile syscalls completed without I/O request
        0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
        0 pages read by sendfile as part of a request
        0 pages were valid at time of a sendfile request
        0 pages were valid and substituted to bogus page
        0 pages were requested for read ahead by applications
        0 pages were read ahead by sendfile
        0 times sendfile encountered an already busy page
        0 requests for sfbufs denied
        0 requests for sfbufs delayed

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          jvmack22 @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10

          Data Summary
          Minimum Average Maximum Last 95th Percentile
          user util. 0.92 % 4.88 % 23.12% 4.54 %
          nice util. 0.00 % 0.11 % 0.75% 0.30 %
          system util. 0.65 % 3.09 % 10.88% 3.48 %
          interrupt 0.00 % 0.23 % 3.59% 0.63 %
          processes 238.00 240.35 247.61 240.00

          Tomorrow I can see if its climbing, though I don't know what is mbuf in these monitoring graphs.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            The graphs should show here:

            Screenshot from 2023-12-14 19-15-56.png

            There's pretty much no traffic passing that test box though

            Steve

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              jvmack22 @stephenw10
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                jvmack22 @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10

                Sorry, just learned this function, never used it before :)

                Here you can see when installed from scratch, last coupld of days:

                Screenshot_20231214_203804.png

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                  jvmack22 @jvmack22
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                  @jvmack22

                  But there where no RAM issues I think in the SG-1100:
                  (My main box Dell server 16Gb RAM hits 1 million Mbuff max. What are normal numbers?)

                  Screenshot_20231214_204420.png

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    1M is waay higher than it ever needs to be but that's currently the default for x86.

                    The ~50K you see there is the default for the 1100. It does look like something is leaking there though.

                    What do you have configured on that box?

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                      jvmack22 @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10

                      • 2 workstations with VPN connecting to ext.office where servers are running. Nextcloud, Zimbra etc.
                      • When workstations are not running, some 2-3 mobile phones at a time max. now and then. Thats it.
                      • a satelite receiver connected with CCca*m to decode channels. (NOT streaming)

                      When it comes to installed packages it is just PfBlocker, nothing else on the default / fresh configuration.
                      It had many PRI1-2-3-4-5 lists on it. Switching Pfblocker off makes the differences of above.
                      What I'm trying now is just the most important blocklists, some 8-9 lists of PRI 1-2-3.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        So that's the OpenVPN on the firewall?

                        Do you have anything configured like igmpproxy or traffic shaping?

                        Anything less common like PPPoE server or L2TP?

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                          jvmack22 @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10

                          No nothing at all like that, just OpenVPN (and Pfblocker)

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Just to be clear the workstations using a VPN are using the OpenVPN link on firewall? Rather than VPNs from each workstation directly?

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