Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:54:02 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp0 "sleeping" Problem (NOT NEW DRIVER RELATED) Message-ID: <20010524125402.A25389@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105241018350.25599-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>; from forrestc@imach.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:33:57AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105241018350.25599-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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>110/2560/2560 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > >Generally I never see the clusters above 150 or so UNLESS the card is >"hung" which I suspect is a symptom and not the cause... > >We don't need to do anything to have it come back - just wait, and then >everything seems just fine like as if nothing had happened at all. >It seems to sleep about 5 minutes. I can't tell if it sleeps for a >specific length of time or not, but from the missed ping responses, it >seems like it varys from time to time. This looks like a SYN or similar type of attack - lots of connection requests/new connections use up all of the mbuf clusters and they have to time out before the network is usable again. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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