From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Nov 29 7:10: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61ABF150B8 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id HAA14667; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:10:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199911291510.HAA14667@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: John Ioannidis Subject: Re: kern/15164: rl0 driver, "no free buffer space avalaible" Reply-To: John Ioannidis Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/15164; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Ioannidis To: fraysse@cedocar.fr, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: kern/15164: rl0 driver, "no free buffer space avalaible" Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:02:19 -0500 (EST) I've had the same problem with the xl driver. It appears that the driver is occasionally consuming mbufs clusters faster than it can release them. This is not a memory leak -- eventually all the buffers are returned. Increasing NMBCLUSTERS seems to solve that problem: options NMBCLUSTERS=16384 /ji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message