From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 6 16:18:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA27062 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA27050 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA07536; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:18:25 +1000 From: Greg Lehey Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id IAA01292; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 08:47:26 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199708062317.IAA01292@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: buffer full error In-Reply-To: <199708062008.QAA00758@arthur.ct-yardley.com> from rajesha at "Aug 6, 97 04:08:55 pm" To: rajesha@ct-yardley.com (rajesha) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 08:47:25 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk rajesha writes: > Question regarding buffers: > > Sometimes I get error of "buffers not available" when I do telnet to our > UNIX server. What would be the cause of this and is it system related? Is > it due to too many people doing file transfers? Will increasing buffer > queues remedy this problem? I know you replied and said "problem resolved". However, that doesn't answer this question. The answer is that there is some problem sending packets down the line, and that the maximum allowable number of messages has been queued for transmission. Greg