Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 05:59:09 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf leak? fxp? Message-ID: <200104011259.f31Cxbm02711@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Apr 2001 06:20:43 %2B0200." <4hiSybB2jC@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>
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In message <4hiSybB2jC@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>, Dirk Meyer writes:
> Archie Cobbs wrote:,
> =
> > I have this machine that starts running out of mbufs every few days
> > ("looutput: mbuf allocation failed") and then crashes, and was wonder=
ing
> > if anyone else has seen similar behavior...
> > =
> > [...]
> > =
> > It appears that something is slowly eating up mbuf clusters.
> > The machine is on a network with continuous but very low volume
> > traffic, including some random multicast, NTP, etc. The machine
> > itself is doing hardly anything at all.
> > =
> > (Possibly) relevant information:
> > =
> > - FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE
> > - Ethernet driver is fxp(4)
> > - Using ipfw(4) and divert(4)
> > - mysql is running, which uses a UNIX domain socket
> > =
> > (Possibly) relevant clue:
> > =
> > - We have other machines configured almost identically but which
> > are not using the fxp(4) driver (and which are handling lots more=
> > traffic) that don't show this problem.
> > =
> > Any ideas?? I wonder if there's some obscure error condition in the
> > fxp(4) driver that has a memory leak.
> =
> I saw somthing similar with "Ethernet driver de(4)"
> A bad workaround seem to be a daily call to:
> =
> ifconfig <interface> down
> ifconfig <interface> up
> =
> I reported it, but nobody had summiten any followup yet:
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D24949
I've had this problem with a 3C509B card, ep(4) driver. It would get =
locked up when sending data to a much slower machine.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
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