From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 22:33:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFD41065675 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:33:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from barium.smartt.com (mailout3.smartt.com [69.67.187.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8C78FC18 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:33:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from [69.31.174.220] (unknown [69.31.174.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by barium.smartt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5DE6B10E448 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A25A415.5010502@smartt.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:13:41 -0700 From: Chris St Denis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: named: error sending response: not enough free resources X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:33:26 -0000 I occasionally get named errors like these in my messages log. I've done a lot of searching and have found others with similar problems, but no solutions. named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not enough free resources named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not enough free resources named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not enough free resources named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not enough free resources named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not enough free resources System isn't particularly heavily loaded. Load averages around 0.5, cpu averages about 90% idle, not swapping much. Other messages on this subject suggest a shortage of mbuffs of an issue with the nic driver (the item I read was complaining about fxp, but I have em) so here is the related info. eureka# uname -a FreeBSD eureka 6.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #1: Mon Feb 25 08:17:08 PST 2008 cstdenis@eureka:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EUREKA i386 eureka# named -v BIND 9.3.4-P1 eureka# ifconfig em1 em1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1b *IPs removed* ether 00:30:48:94:0a:31 media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP status: active eureka# netstat -m 1240/2165/3405 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 1216/1290/2506/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 1216/150 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 2742K/3121K/5863K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 8/430/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 999635 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 276104 calls to protocol drain routines How do I fix this? -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 ------------------------------------------- "Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses"