From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 11:33:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailrelay1.inwind.it (mailrelay1.inwind.it [212.141.54.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB92C37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [62.98.216.217] (62.98.216.217) by mailrelay1.inwind.it (5.5.029) id 3B83A8CA001F3D8D for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:33:12 +0200 Received: (qmail 1848 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Sep 2001 18:30:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:30:10 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei To: Jon Loeliger Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No memory for rx list? Message-ID: <20010905203010.A1829@goku.kasby> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jdl@jdl.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:07:27AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 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 --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:07:27AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: >=20 > So, I have gotten this message a couple times now: >=20 > Sep 4 09:11:32 www /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! > Sep 4 09:11:32 www last message repeated 15 times >=20 > And it is: >=20 > Aug 9 07:36:59 www /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> > port 0xdc00-0xdc3f irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 > Aug 9 07:36:59 www /kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:cf:fa:b4 > Aug 9 07:36:59 www /kernel: miibus0: on xl0 >=20 > On a: >=20 > www 1427 # uname -a > FreeBSD www.uncommoncon.com 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat A= pr 21 > 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC = i386 >=20 >=20 > Is this some memory leak or bug? Or is this some net-attack? > It is on a machine on the inside of the Firewall, so I assume > it is a memory leak (or so) right now. >=20 > Well, OK, so it comes from tl_newbuf() when mbufs can't be had. > Question is, why can't we find an mbuf? Did someone lie about > an incoming ether frame size? Just flat ran out of mbufs? >=20 > Thanks, > jdl >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 > end of the original message =46rom xl(4) manpage: xl%d: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. xl%d: no memory for tx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster. You're running low on mbufs. What does netstat -m show? Francesco Casadei --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7lm8xfsM3XxZOsXsRAvJCAKDGqu4Z7PzWPXkXLzgK3NsiGSkL3gCeLlWw NJKiOn2GEAYpFnPCLEQNbP8= =42FA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message