title: MBUF full, what's the best thing to do?
body: <p>I noticed today that the MBUF usage has hit its limit.
  Apparently the site I'm running under pfsense is having some troubles too, I'd like to know if it would be safe to just </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters=65536</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I wouldn't like to reboot the server, is it safe (or useful) to do it via pfsense shell?</p>
  
  <p>thanks you very much</p>
  
  <pre><code>2.0-RELEASE (amd64) 
  built on Tue Sep 13 17:05:32 EDT 2011 
  
  State table size    35573/550000
  MBUF Usage    25600/25600
  CPU usage 2%
  Memory usage 17% (2GB)
  Swap 0%
  CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz
  </code></pre>