Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 12:52:43 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>, Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBUFs leaking? Message-ID: <199605061952.MAA07234@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 1996 09:52:02 CDT." <Pine.BSI.3.93.960506094854.13225C-100000@sasami>
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>On Tue, 7 May 1996, michael butler wrote: >> I always thought that whilst there is a definable upper bound on how many >> clusters might be created, the memory actually used for data was dynamically >> allocated (and freed), > >Indeed. This seems to be the case. I'm not sure why I was getting >'unable to allocate' errors on the console, but I'm not getting them >anymore and as a test, I added about um... 1500 IP aliases just >to see what would happen (nothing really). The mbuf clusters increased >and I got no errors, so all is working correctly. I was a little >worried when I saw the % used approaching 100 and jumped to conclusions >about low mbufs and the allocation errors I got. > >LART me, and have a good one. Are you refering to the "arpresolve: an't allocate llinfo..." messages? This has nothing to do with mbufs or mbuf clusters. It has to do with a failure to allocate an ARP entry in the routing table. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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