[Tor-BSD] Kernel crashes FreeBSD 11

[Pete Wright]

On 05/15/2017 04:52, Paul wrote:
> I am running Exits on Tor 0.2.9.10 on FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 with rather small RAM.
> It works well apart from the fact that it crashes from time to time leaving one of the following messages in the log:
>
> kernel: [1405996] kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 256, please see tuning(7).
>
> kernel: [60876] [zone: mbuf_cluster] kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached
>
> I know it is certainly a RAM issue, which I don’t want to increase. So could somebody please provide me with a
>   way to check the system in advance and probably reset it before it cant be reached from outside.

Have you increased the number of nmbclusters?  the default is most likey 
too low on your system to handle the amount of network sockets:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html
https://wiki.freebsd.org/NetworkPerformanceTuning

Hope this helps,
-pete

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Pete Wright
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