From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 17:54:52 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA01121 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 17:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from kaori.communique.net (kaori.Communique.Net [204.27.65.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA01103; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 17:54:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by kaori.communique.net with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BBF29D.28C8B4D0@kaori.communique.net>; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:52:29 -0600 Message-ID: From: Raul Zighelboim To: "'hackers@freefall.freebsd.org'" Cc: "'questions@freefall.freebsd.org'" Subject: Help 'no buffer available'!! Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:52:28 -0600 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My poor news server is sick..... ----kiyoko:/var/log# ping akira PING akira.communique.net (204.27.65.10): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 204.27.65.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.867 ms ping: sendto: No buffer space available ping: wrote akira.communique.net 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: No buffer space available ping: wrote akira.communique.net 64 chars, ret=-1 64 bytes from 204.27.65.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.708 ms ---- this is killing communications once in a while....(the message No buffer available)... we stopped runnung named on the server to preserve memory.... What can I do to resolve it on 2.1.6R (will be upgrading to 2.2b soon) My kernel details" options "CHILD_MAX=512" options "OPEN_MAX=1024" options "MAXMEM=262144" options "NMBCLUSTERS=4096" options "EXTRAVNODES=30000" <----- this is not a real option on 2.1.6 options "NBUF=4096" 3c509 and ahc controllers. I also run "/usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.maxvnodes=30000" at boot time.... Is theresomething I am missing ? Thanks. ------------------------ ------------------------ Raul Zighelboim Communique Inc. mailto:mango@communique.net http://www.communique.net