From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 13:29:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30B437B404 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71CC43FDD for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3UKTJ0n005316; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:29:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EB0321A.5020106@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:29:14 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel: looutput: mbuf allocation failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:29:32 -0000 Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > Recently had a box go dark for a few minutes... pulled the following from the > logs shortly after the box revived itself. > > /kernel: looutput: mbuf allocation failed > > been a while since we have touched the kernel config for this server... any > pointers as to what settings we should lookat or touch to prevent this nastiness > from occuring again? What does 'netstat -m' have to say? According to that, you may want to tweak the number of mbufs available via sysctl. If you search the list archives you'll find many conversations about this. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com