Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:27:08 -0500 From: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com> To: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG>, 'Benjamin Krueger' <benjamin@macguire.net> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Network issues... Message-ID: <B8BE147C.B508%bmcalpine@macconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDCBB@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
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I had the same problem on one of my machines. MBUFs were the issue. However, you don't have to recompile the kernel. Just add the following line to the loader.conf file in the /boot directory: kern.ipc.nmbclusters="8192 That should do the trick. Brendan > From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:11:37 -0500 > To: 'Benjamin Krueger' <benjamin@macguire.net> > Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: RE: Network issues... > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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