From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 6 11:50: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D406F37B502 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e96IoUg01224 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:50:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:50:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Machine Wedges In-Reply-To: <20001006134245.O50639@stat.Duke.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Sean O'Connell wrote: > Chris BeHanna stated: > : Ever since upgrading to 4.1.1-STABLE, I've been having problems in > : which the machine wedges every 2 or 3 days. It looks like something > : in the xl driver code, from what I saw in /var/log/messages (I've > : included a portion of this file below). As the system begins to slow > : down, netstat -gin starts showing me Ierr errors on xl0 and lo0. > : > : [...snip...] > : > : Oct 6 09:07:41 topperwein /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! > : Oct 6 09:08:12 topperwein last message repeated 66 times > : Oct 6 09:10:13 topperwein last message repeated 224 times > : Oct 6 09:12:49 topperwein last message repeated 270 times > : Oct 6 09:12:49 topperwein dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available > : Oct 6 09:12:50 topperwein /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! > : > : (and on and on ad nauseam) > : > : Does anyone have any ideas? If you need more information, let me > : know. > > Chris- > > This looks like an mbuf starvation issue. 'netstat -m' ought > to let you know if you are running into problems. This is tied > to NMBCLUSTERS value and to a lesser extent maxusers. > > >From LINT: > > options NMBCLUSTERS=1024 OK, but why would this have become a problem in 4.1.1, when it worked fine in 4.1? -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message