From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 9 11:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25801 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25796 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA14980; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma014976; Thu Jul 9 11:17:12 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA09523; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:17:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199807091817.LAA09523@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: sendto: no buffer space In-Reply-To: <19980709081538.A8094@oneinsane.net> from Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson at "Jul 9, 98 08:15:39 am" To: insane@oneinsane.net (Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson writes: > Yesterday I experienced this error on my server. I was able to > ping other local machines on my network but not to my uplink. This > server gateways for 6 other machines and virtula hosts 2 websites > plus its own. When this error occurred I did a netstat -m and it said > I had 120 buffers in use. (Damn I wish I had Saved that info before > I rebooted. Hind SITE is 20/20 ;-)). For more specifics on the machine > goto http:/www.oneinsane.net/about.html. Any help on this matter would > be greatly appreciated. Sounds like a bug in whatever interface connects to your uplink. E.g., it missed an interrupt, and is waiting indefinitely for it to send the next packet.. meanwhile the queue quickly fills up. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message