From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 3 14: 7:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD4D37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C52943E4A for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h13M92T5072059 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:09:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E3EE7D5.2010401@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:06:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ping: sendto: No buffer space available" References: <20030203212349.GG12779@pir.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Radcliffe wrote: > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > > I see this occasionally on my -stable box and havn't had a good > explanation of why and what buffer. Searching isn't turning up > anything useful. > > Is there something I can tweak to make this less likely ? What kind of interface are you pinging through? I've seen this on a VPN where the VPN was running out of entropy (from /dev/random). I think it was a tun# interface. Could also be an MBUF thing. Does netstat -m say anything scary? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message