From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 4 5:19:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 964D437B403 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 05:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 55162 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jul 2001 12:19:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:19:47 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Randy -Harborside Internet Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, John Fox , Jack Worrall Subject: Re: TX buffer in 4.3 Message-ID: <20010704141947.B52663@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Randy -Harborside Internet , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, John Fox , Jack Worrall References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from randymb@harborside.com on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:53:43PM -0700 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Randy -Harborside Internet(randymb@harborside.com)@2001.07.03 13:53:43 +000= 0: > =20 > We are having a problem with our mail server. It recently got > upgraded to 4.3 from 4.2, and now it is having problems with the TX > buffer somehow on the network card. Every once in awhile it will shut > off all network traffic and give these errors: > no memory for tx listrl0 > Then in a few minutes (presumably when the buffer is flushed somehow) > the network device resumes normal operation. > We have tried 3 different NICs, and all have had the same problem. > The three models were: > 1. Realtek RTL8139A 10/100TX > 2. Intel chipset:82558B > 3. 3Com somethingerather.=20 >=20 > We are running with 512MB of RAM, and it usually has about 200 or > more megs free at the time of this occurance. in this case i think putting options NMBCLUSTERS=3D32768 in your kernel config would solve this problem also bumping up MAXUSERS helps... /k --=20 > Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7QwnjM0BPTilkv0YRAgHrAJ9AqtWahT5quQH46VPYSD//I3QtTACgu++0 7R3qu+1vq8r/yQ9K1UiPSfI= =Gthw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message