From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 20:40:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt0f4nfc.san.rr.com [24.94.22.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26D914D59 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@ds9.dreamhaven.org) Received: from data (helo=localhost) by ds9.dreamhaven.org with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10zuBD-0008Wa-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:39:59 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:39:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: xl0 error message "packet dropped" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings all, Over the last 2 days, my server has crashed 3 times, each time with the same error message scrolling continuously down the console screen. The 3rd time, I got smart and had the technician at which the server is located (which is 750 miles from me) write down the error message and mail it to me before he reset the system. It was hard for him to see, but it went something like this: xl0: no mem for rx list: packet dropped!! We run a lot of virtual web servers on this machine... maybe too many, which might explain this. The machine itself is a PII 333, running FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE, and the ethernet card is a 3Com 3C905 Fast EtherLink XL with a 10 Mbit connection. What I'm really asking for here is if someone can explain to me what that error message means, i.e. is the system running out of real memory, or is the kernel running out of memory that is has allocated for the network subsystem, or.....? Thanks in advance! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message