From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 19 06:46:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA16797 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 06:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA16771 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 06:46:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id PAA17179; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:46:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:46:28 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: leakage in ep-driver? References: <199805181815.OAA21666@rtfm.ziplink.net> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 19 May 1998 15:46:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: Mikhail Teterin's message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 14:15:02 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mikhail Teterin writes: > The symptoms are: > > * pinging local net machines from the gateway machine says: > "No buffer space available" > * pinging the gateway machine from local net machines says: > "Host is down" > * local net machines continue to ping each other just fine > * all lights on the hub are fine > * the other (de0) interface is functional, machine is > accessible from the Internet, continues to receive mail, > etc. > > To heal the situation I had to (no rebooting, no): > > ifconfig ep0 down > ifconfig ep0 up > > Any ideas? Thanks! You're out of mbufs. Check 'netstat -m'. Add the following to your kernel configuration: options "NMBCLUSTERS=8192" The default is 512 + 16 * MAXUSERS. 8192 ought to be enough for anyone ;) -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message