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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:08:02 -0500
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Borja Marcos <BORJAMAR@SARENET.ES>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslogd not draining
Message-ID:  <20060327170802.GA58044@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20F3E06D-5727-4531-A81B-DF64765D1564@SARENET.ES>
References:  <20060327160130.GA57689@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20F3E06D-5727-4531-A81B-DF64765D1564@SARENET.ES>

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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:18:50PM +0200, Borja Marcos wrote:
> >I've got a machine running syslogd, DNS, DHCP, flow-capture, and other
> >assorted UDP-loving programs.  Occasionally, they all stop working.
> >The machine has been up for a couple of hours now, and I see:
> >
> >ns1/etc;netstat -s | grep full
> >Warning: sysctl(net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats): No such file or directory
> >        122066 dropped due to full socket buffers
> >ns1/etc;
> >
> >I've doubled kern.ipc.maxsockbuf a couple of times now, and yet it
> >still happens.
> >
> >After some help from questions@, I'm pretty sure that the culprit is
> >syslogd.
> >
> >udp4       0      0  *.67                   *.*
> >udp4   43414      0  *.514                  *.*
> >udp4       0      0  *.49661                *.*
> 
> Are you using a serial console? I had similar problems in the past  
> due to the serial port flow control.

Yes, I am.

So, if I disable syslogd writing to the console, it might clear this up?

Thanks,
==ml

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