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Date:      Sun, 22 Aug 1999 00:45:48 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   rx list ???
Message-ID:  <199908220545.AAA11248@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>

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Hello!


I found the following messages (so far just once) on a server that is running
web-server (apache), and an ftp server.

This is 3.1-19990412-STABLE with a custom-built kernel with
maxusers  set to 128,
running on a PPRO-180 with 128MB of RAM and ~260MB of swap space.


Aug 21 16:00:29 <kern.crit> HOST /kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - adjust NMBCL
USTERS or increase maxusers!
Aug 21 16:00:29 <kern.crit> HOST /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packe
t dropped!
Aug 21 16:00:43 <kern.crit> HOST last message repeated 1354 times

I don't see anything in the logs that would indicate an  extraodinary load ,
however, it looks like neither of the servers logged anything
between 16:00:29 and 16:00:41

I wonder, whether it is possible that this is due some type of a DOS attack.

Also, what can be done ?
I am not certain if boosting the value of maxusers up would be
a wise solution.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Igor


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