From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 11:17:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B15B14D18 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24010; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:16:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <000d01bed20d$15024270$9828f99f@shl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:22:15 -0400 To: "Tim Pushor" , From: Robert Beer Subject: Re: 'Out of buffer space' problem Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:34 PM -0400 7/19/1999, Tim Pushor wrote: >I work for a rather large organization and have convinced management to >replace our aging AIX SMTP relays/DNS servers with Compaq Servers running >FreeBSD. Saturday I had officially turned off our old AIX boxes and were >running on pure FreeBSD boxes. > >On the first full day of production, half way through (today) one of the >boxes that the companies primary DNS was running on stopped responding. The >error I was getting was 'out of buffer space'. Use netstat -m to check on mbufs. Check the network connections with netstat -anfinet If this is running low you will need to compile a custom kernel and increase this to maybe 4096. You may also want to check on maxusers and set that up to 128. >Can anyone out there help me track the problem down? I know there can be >several factors involved, but I *really* have to get this one licked rather >quickly. Watch the logs in the /var/log directory. Look at man pages for the commands: top vmstat iostat --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message