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Date:      Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:38:02 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: network buffer problem
Message-ID:  <20020218163802.B22456@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <E16cy1y-000JIy-00@rip.psg.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020218231018.01f18948@outshine> <20020219001421.D17FA5D09@ptavv.es.net> <E16cy1y-000JIy-00@rip.psg.com>

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:21:14PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> i had a jillion of these the other day while i was out of town.  
> 
>     /kernel: fxp0: cluster allocation failed, packet dropped!
>     /kernel: m_clalloc failed, consider increase NMBCLUSTERS value
> 
> no net access, of course.  it cleared itself up, no reboot.  been running
> for five days since the problem and nothing else strange.

can you show the output of "netstat -m" ?
I wonder if the code to auto-size the number of
clusters and mbuf isn't picking up too low values for your
system. 

	cheers
	luigi
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