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Date:      Wed, 06 Mar 2002 23:02:26 +0000
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Jan L. Peterson" <jlp@softhome.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: crashes on 4.5-RELEASE 
Message-ID:   <200203062302.aa66019@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:51:22 PST." <200203062251.g26MpM258927@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <200203062251.g26MpM258927@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon wri
tes:
>
>    I wonder if a TCP nfs mount would cause the problem to occur more
>    often.  Then you wouldn't need an IPFW rule.... a simple TCP stall
>    in a heavily loaded environment would be enough to cause the output
>    buffer to grow to a considerable size.

Yes, that's certainly possible. Can someone who has a crash dump
handy run

	netstat -m -N kernel.X -M vmcore.X

to get the mbuf stats? I think with TCP the buildup would be much
slower, as a (as far as I remember) retransmits are limited. In
-CURRENT (which is the only place I have seen the IPFW/NFS mbuf
exhaustion) I think sosend() was returning EPERM, but the mbufs
were still building up. That may be a new bug somewhere.

Ian

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