From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 6:11:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICO2.Partners.org (phsexchico2.partners.org [170.223.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F38837B405 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by phsexchico2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:11:38 -0500 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDCBB@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: 'Benjamin Krueger' Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Network issues... Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:11:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Benjamin Krueger wrote: >Ricky Morse wrote: >> >> ping: sendto: no buffer space available > >Ricky, it sounds like you're running low on mbufs,and I'm willing to bet that >you'll find your system logs littered with messages from the kernel regarding >mbuf allocation failures. To verify this is the case if you see this behavior >again, type 'netstat -m' to see the current mbuf statistics. If you find that >this is your problem and you're running a release below 4.5, you will need to >recompile your kernel with 'options NMBCLUSTERS=' with a larger number that >will suit your needs. (The default is 1024) Which system logs should I look in? Neither console.log, maillog, messages, nor dmesg report anything about mbufs.... Thanks, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message