From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 5 12:51:36 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 55F8214BE9 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA34998; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bryce Newall Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: xl0 error message "packet dropped" 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 Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Bryce Newall wrote: > 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.....? Try pulling a new copy of the xl driver from -STABLE. You want src/sys/pci/if_xl.c and it's accompnying header. That or update to 3.2-STABLE. I think this problem was fixed recently. 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