From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 14 11:53:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2AE3EC8; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA11486; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:53:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200002141953.LAA11486@apollo.backplane.com> To: Lloyd Rennie Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GateD returns 'No buffer space available' upon a routing table build... References: Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :etc... : :The first symptom seems always to be the malloc failure. This happens :within the first minute of uptime on this particular machine, a :p2-400/128Mb. All machines run FreeBSD-3.2. The others take longer to :develop the fault, but have slower processors. 'vmstat -m' before, during, and after the gated startup. You are probably running into the malloc pool KVM limit. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message