syslogd not draining

Hi,

I've got a machine running syslogd, DNS, DHCP, flow-capture, and other
assorted UDP-loving programs. Occasionally, they all stop working.
The machine has been up for a couple of hours now, and I see:

ns1/etc;netstat -s | grep full
Warning: sysctl(net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats): No such file or directory
122066 dropped due to full socket buffers
ns1/etc;

I've doubled kern.ipc.maxsockbuf a couple of times now, and yet it
still happens.

After some help from questions@, I'm pretty sure that the culprit is
syslogd.

udp4 0 0 *.67 *.*
udp4 43414 0 *.514 *.*
udp4 0 0 *.49661 *.*

Things run perfectly for a while, and then we suddenly stop answering
UDP requests. We continue not answering UDP requests until I restart
syslogd.

syslogd -d didn't give anything interesting.

I'm now running syslogd -n, to see if that helps. I'm also restarting
syslogd every fifteen minutes, to ensure that the problem can last no
longer than 14 minutes. :-)

Anyone interested in why syslogd is not draining the queue?

Thanks,
==ml


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