From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 14:12:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA4315381 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07055; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:12:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jeff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with xl0 and Squid In-Reply-To: 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 On Sun, 16 May 1999, Jeff wrote: > I am trying to run squid21 as a policy based cache for a small ISP. > Everything runs fine up to the point where I am seeing between 80,000 and > 100,000 requests/Hr. At about that point I get a batch of syslog entries > looking like those below, and the system drops off the net or reboots. > > May 15 21:06:57 cache /kernel: r rx list -- packet dropped! > May 15 21:06:57 cache /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! It appears the receive list for the ethernet card is overloading. I believe that value was bumped recently; try grabbing a new src/sys/pci/if_xl.c out of -STABLE or -CURRENT. What model of 3com, specifically? The 3c900s have a tiny, tiny amount of onboard buffer space. > May 15 21:07:28 cache last message repeated 2547 times > May 15 21:09:25 cache last message repeated 1861 times > > The machine in question is a P200 with 256M/bytes of ram, two Adaptec > 2940s driving 6 4gig barracuda drives. I am running 3.1-STABLE from CVS as of > May 5, 1999. The kernel config file I am using is at > ftp://dracon.hal-pc.org/pub/CACHE > > Any suggestions as to configuration problems I may have, or pointers to > patches would be of tremendous help. > > Please respond in person, I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message