Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 01:28:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: randy@zyzzyva.com, et-users@netrail.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Continued MBUF problem with ET V.35 card Message-ID: <199605090828.BAA14028@MediaCity.com> In-Reply-To: <199605090148.LAA01217@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "May 9, 96 11:18:23 am"
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Michael Smith wrote:
> Randy Terbush stands accused of saying:
> >
> > As some of you may remember, I reported a problem with MBUF leakage
> > on a FreeBSD-stable system running an Emerging Technologies ET5025
> > card. After Dennis' indication that the problem was FreeBSD-stable
> > and rather strong suggestion that I need to be running 2.1.0, I
> > have reinstalled this system running stock FreeBSD-2.1.0. The
> > problem still exists and can be directly related to activity over
> > the 56K connection. A much busier system of same kernel vintage
> > without the ET drivers hovers at around '75 mbufs in use' after
> > several days of uptime. The system will reach it's max of 4096K
> > after about 48 hours of uptime and eventually reboot. I'm at a loss
> > for how to track this down and would heartily welcome more
> > productive suggestions.
>
> Hit Dennis on the head and get him to admit that it's his drivers 8)
Some months ago, I worked with Dennis to track down the mbuf leak
problem. The leak was in FreeBSD code, not his driver.
Disclaimer: dennis may have introduced a new leak since we worked on
tracking down the one I ran into.
Brian Litzinger
brian@mediacity.com
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