Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xl0 error message "packet dropped" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907051249480.20642-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9907012036380.8546-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.net>
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Bryce Newall wrote: > Greetings all, > > Over the last 2 days, my server has crashed 3 times, each time with the > same error message scrolling continuously down the console screen. The > 3rd time, I got smart and had the technician at which the server is > located (which is 750 miles from me) write down the error message and mail > it to me before he reset the system. It was hard for him to see, but it > went something like this: > > xl0: no mem for rx list: packet dropped!! > > We run a lot of virtual web servers on this machine... maybe too many, > which might explain this. The machine itself is a PII 333, running > FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE, and the ethernet card is a 3Com 3C905 Fast EtherLink > XL with a 10 Mbit connection. What I'm really asking for here is if > someone can explain to me what that error message means, i.e. is the > system running out of real memory, or is the kernel running out of memory > that is has allocated for the network subsystem, or.....? Try pulling a new copy of the xl driver from -STABLE. You want src/sys/pci/if_xl.c and it's accompnying header. That or update to 3.2-STABLE. I think this problem was fixed recently. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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