From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 14:44:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA00177 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:44:20 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA00171 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:44:15 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA05138; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:44:05 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA00492; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:44:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199503282244.OAA00492@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Brad Midgley cc: Steve Passe , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 950322 SNAP and flakey networking In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 95 14:20:12 MST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:44:03 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >[up-and-down networking problems I'm having] > >the last two failures coincided EXACTLY with 3 "mb_map: full" messages. >Does that help at all? Are there other tests I can try? I haven't tried >this freebsd kernel debugging I hear so much about. I think the problem is that you don't have enough mbuf clusters configured in the kernel for the number of connections that it is supporting. Try increasing it with the following: options "NMBCLUSTERS=1024" in your kernel config file...if this helps, but the problem still persists, try increasing it to 2048. -DG