From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 16:56:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.net (dt0f6n87.san.rr.com [24.94.24.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EEB7158E7 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@ds9.dreamhaven.org) Received: from data (helo=localhost) by ds9.dreamhaven.net with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11J3vp-000HJB-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:55:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: "No buffer space available" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, 2 friends of mine and I run some pretty high-volume web sites. We're running 2 servers, similar hardware (one is a PII 333, one is 400; the 333 has a built-in Adaptec 7895 SCSI controller, the other has a 2940UW; both machines have 3Com Fast Etherlink XL's (3C905)), running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE. It seems that every 5-7 days, we have to reboot both servers, because they start getting "No buffer space available" error messages all over the place. It happens with the ftpd, telnet, ssh, and even named. I'm starting to wonder if perhaps the code for the 3C905 card isn't that great, or if maybe the cards themselves just don't work under high traffic loads? These two machines definitely put out a lot of traffic (over 1.5 Mbit/sec at almost all times). Thanks in advance for any suggestions. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message