From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 17:46:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21655 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21647 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA25171; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:46:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Geldart cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTQ_Really_Old In-Reply-To: <33539DAC.41C6@asg.unb.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Mike Geldart wrote: > I have a person who runs FreeBSD for a web proxy server and they are > getting RTQ_Really_Old messages with the timeout reducing each time they > get the message until eventually the box freezes up, could you please > tell me what these messages mean and what they might indicate may be > wrong with the tcpip setup on the machine or in his ISP's network. The box actually *freezes*? That's the first time I've heard of that. Normally you can ignore the rtq messages, but in this case I'd be inclined to think he's running out of mbufs. He'll need to raise them. check the mail archives for details, I don't remeber the appropriate kernel options. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major