From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 10:42:10 2002 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 A310837B400; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redlance.singingtree.com (pool.207.151.148.221.cinenet.net [207.151.148.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25C943E6E; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikey@singingtree.com) Received: from redlance.singingtree.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by redlance.singingtree.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7FHg4GF033432; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikey@singingtree.com) Received: from localhost (mikey@localhost) by redlance.singingtree.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g7FHg4e2033429; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikey@singingtree.com) X-Authentication-Warning: redlance.singingtree.com: mikey owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:42:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael A. Dickerson" To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Benjamin Krueger , Max Clark , , Subject: Re: Loosing network connection repeatedly without an identifiable cause In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020815112108.050af760@marble.sentex.ca> Message-ID: <20020815103844.K33392-100000@redlance.singingtree.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 08:17 AM 15/08/2002 -0700, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > >Check the number of available mbufs. > > That should show up in dmesg (or logged in kern.* via syslog) as well e.g. > > /kernel: All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7). Yes, I have seen this on a busy system with a badly tuned kernel. Did you know there was trouble with the fxp driver in 4-STABLE a few days ago? I was having similar bizarre problems (ping works in one direction, not the other, etc.) with an fxp interface and it turned out to be a bad cvs commit. It was discussed in this list. See for instance: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=67068+0+current/freebsd-stable M.D. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message