From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 27 20:23:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles542.castles.com [208.214.165.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9403153AE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:23:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00870; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912280428.UAA00870@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Mr. K." Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:20:14 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:28:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > received the following messages in /var/log/messages, followed by a kernel > panic (I assume that's why it rebooted, anyway)... > > Dec 27 23:08:36 freebsd50 /kernel: r rx list -- packet dropped! > Dec 27 23:08:36 freebsd50 /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet > dropped! > Dec 27 23:08:36 freebsd50 last message repeated 177 times > Dec 27 23:13:50 freebsd50 /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. > > What I was doing was making 500 connections from this box to a linux box > and sending 1 million messages (10 bytes) back and forth. This box was > the client, the linux box was the server. Unfortunately, it looks like > the linux box won :(. > > Totally untweaked kernel. I didn't get to tweaking yet. I shouldn't have > to tweak anything to make the kernel not panic, though... Not > complaining, just pre-empting possible flames. That's completely incorrect. > Is this a known problem? Yes, I should enable crash dumps, I'm going to > go look for documentation on that now... You might just try watching the console when the system goes over. GENERIC is tuned to work well on a wide range of configurations, not to be pounded to death. Try setting NMBCLUSTERS to something around 10000. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message