From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 13:59:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07897 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:59:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07891 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:59:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA00937; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:59:50 -0800 Message-Id: <199601292159.NAA00937@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Sean T. Lamont" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hints on network dropping In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:57:32 PST." <9601291957.AA24777@zebu.serv.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:59:50 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Hi there. I have been experiencing problems with a FreeBSD system >dropping its network connection entirely. It's a fairly high trafficked >httpd server, and that's about it. It's an ASUS P133 motherboard with >an NE2000 clone network card and an IDE disk system. > >What happens is, for about 10 minutes at a time (at least once per >day) the network will drop entirely ; the site isn't ping'able, >no logging occurs on the http server. In about 10 minutes, it comes >up and runs fine. > >I'm at somewhat of a loss here since I have an identical kernel >running on our news server, which has some extended resources like >processes. It almost sounds like a driver problem, but as I said, >the NE2000 clone is working fine for us on the other server. > >Any hints for me before I consider swapping out OS's? The problem is likely caused by running out of mbuf clusters. Add: options "NMBCLUSTERS=2048" ...to your kernel config file. I'd also recommend getting a PCI ethernet controller. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project