From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 17 10:10:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE3D37B40F for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160F043F75 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1HIA7NS056682 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:10:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1HIA7nn056681; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:10:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:10:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200302171810.h1HIA7nn056681@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ralph Forsythe Subject: Re: misc/39341: ppp + USB modem problem Reply-To: Ralph Forsythe Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/39341; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ralph Forsythe To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: misc/39341: ppp + USB modem problem Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:20:06 -0700 (MST) Just as an addition, I am experiencing almost the same thing under FreeBSD 4.7, from a CVS tree dated to approx. the end of December. HOWEVER, some other variations: - Mine dumps with something like 'no free buffers'. The rest of the output looks similar, however I am not able to supply the actual text now; I will reply back with that later. - Heavy load can cause it, however it's merely a catalyst, not the cause. I thought it was just me blasting the modem with extensive traffic (max speed is about 170k download, Ricochet modem i.e. Metricom G2) so I left it with minimal traffic, an ssh session and web browsing here and there - no heavy downloads. It still crashed, it just took longer. It's almost as though there is a finite amount of something available, or some number it can't count any higher with, or something isn't being freed, and downloading a lot just makes it happen faster. - I tried both from a NAT'd XP workstation behind the FreeBSD box, and from the BSD box itself. Doesn't seem to make a difference, therefore I believe NAT is not a contributing factor here. Contact me if you need more info about my setup. In the meantime I will reproduce and post the actual dump output later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message