From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 10 8:19:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail-smtp.socket.net (mail-smtp.socket.net [216.106.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F68A15417 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:19:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vaevictus@socket.net) Received: from mail.socket.net (mail.socket.net [216.106.1.7]) by mail-smtp.socket.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA29282 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:19:31 -0500 From: vaevictus@socket.net Received: from socket.net ([216.106.1.12]) by mail.socket.net ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:19:12 -0600 Reply-To: vaevictus@socket.net To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 99 10:19:12 -600 Subject: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's X-Mailer: DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway 1.5af, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <37b042f0.7cfd.0@socket.net> X-User-Info: 216.106.1.31 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've got a 3.2 box running squid on a Internet routed network and a separate local network, used by the customers of the ISP I work for. It probably deals with a significant amount of traffic. Since I brought the machine to life, I've had virtually no problems. However, occasionally, the server will loose it's network connectivity. The console had panic messages of "kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!" for xl0 and xl1. Upon reboot, the system would be fine. I fear that this has happened before, and will occur again. In the /var/log/messages archive, I located what looked like the beginning of the problem, "kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - adjust NMBCLUSTERS or increase maxusers". I'm running the generic 3.2 kernel which has maxusers 32, which i thought would be more than sufficient. NMBCLUSTERS I'm not sure of. Does anyone have any suggestions or info about this situation? Nathan Mahon vaevictus@socket.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message