From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 1 6: 8:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1DB37B71A for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 06:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id GAA00549; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 06:00:59 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda00538; Sun Apr 1 06:00:39 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f31D0YH03459; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 06:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdNP3442; Sun Apr 1 05:59:38 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f31Cxbm02711; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 05:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104011259.f31Cxbm02711@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdaD2707; Sun Apr 1 05:59:10 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf leak? fxp? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Apr 2001 06:20:43 +0200." <4hiSybB2jC@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 05:59:09 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 down > ifconfig 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 Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message