[Tor-BSD] Kernel crashes FreeBSD 11

[Paul]

Am 17.05.2017 um 18:45 schrieb Pete Wright:
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> 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:
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>> kernel: [1405996] kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 256, please see tuning(7).
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>> kernel: [60876] [zone: mbuf_cluster] kern.ipc.nmbclusters limit reached
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>> 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.
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> Have you increased the number of nmbclusters?  the default is most likey too low on your system to handle the amount of network sockets:
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> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/NetworkPerformanceTuning
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> Hope this helps,
> -pete
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Thanks Pete - I was aware of those hints and links and yes I did increase the number of nmbclusters to 100.000 while having 512 MB RAM long time ago, but even that limit seems to get reached.