From owner-freebsd-net Sun May 13 7: 0:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.nildram.co.uk (mercury.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6542E37B43E for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 07:00:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@unix-consult.com) Received: from nermal.unix-consult.com (tgeusch.dial.nildram.co.uk [195.149.29.39]) by mercury.nildram.co.uk (8.10.0/8.10.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id f4DE0NA20174 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 15:00:24 +0100 Received: (qmail 25740 invoked by uid 1002); 13 May 2001 08:24:28 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:24:28 +0100 From: Timo Geusch To: Munish Chopra Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! Message-ID: <20010513092427.A25576@nermal.unix-consult.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from messiah_man@hotmail.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:42:35PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:42:35PM +0200, Munish Chopra wrote: > One of the machines on our network spits out the following (constantly): > > xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! Did you check if you are running out of mbufs on this system? (netstat -m) I had exactly the same symptom on a machine that was getting hammered by the network traffic. If it is running out of mbufs, increase the number of mbufs using the sysctl in /boot/loader.conf, reboot and watch the box to see if this fixed the problem. > It is of course unreachable through the network. This popped up on > 4.2-RELEASE one single time, then went away after a reboot. Now, on > 4.3-RELEASE, it was running fine till about two hours ago. Reboots aren't > helping. Rebooting won't help if you don't fix the source of the problem, which is the amount of network traffic your box is getting. HTH, Timo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message