Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:18:55 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: "Jay L. West" <jlwest@tseinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!! Severe PPP problems! Message-ID: <199603152218.PAA12498@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199603140946.JAA02128@bsd.tseinc.com> References: <199603140946.JAA02128@bsd.tseinc.com>
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> After a fresh boot everything runs great for from 30 minutes to 2 hours > roughly. Then I notice via systat -pigs and ps -aux that the ppp daemon > running the connection to our provider starts using 124% of the cpu. You're using PPP on 2.0.5 on a dedicated line? That's scary! :) > problems. Sometimes systat will say segmentation fault. The ppp link via > ISDN to our provider is running at 155200k baud on a 16550 UART. We're > running 2.0.5 on a 486dx4/100 with 16mb of RAM. Hmmmmm... > generated the message 'no buffer space available' I set NMBCLUSTERS to 1500 > and then later set it to 2048. I have spent two days trying to trouble shoot > the problem and customers are getting upset (there's a euphamism ): ). *grin* > Any help would be very very very much appreciated. We may try to > upgrade with a fresh install to 2.1 if that would help. Does anyone > have any ideas? Please? My suggestion is to upgrade to -stable and run pppd in a shell loop if you are running a dedicated service. However, the ppp program in -stable should be better, and may solve your problems *IF* you want to stick with it. Nate
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