Re: Major problem with "No buffer space available" errors

From: Jin Guojun [NCS] (j_guojun_at_lbl.gov)
Date: 07/16/03

  • Next message: Bosko Milekic: "Re: Major problem with "No buffer space available" errors"
    Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:41:12 -0700
    To: James West <jwest254@mail.com>
    
    

    Ok, this may have confirmed that it is a drive or motherboard (Intel specific) bug.

    We had same problem about a month ago on Intel D875PBZP motherboard
    with 5.1-RELEASE. It has a onboard Intel 10/100/1000 PRO (em) NIC.
    We left the machine idle for a month, since the machine is useless and
    we have plentiful other things to do.
    This week, we decide to use this machine for high-speed network test.
    Somehow, the machine just works without any change. I asked around
    and no one here says that they changed any thing.

    What I can suggest to you is to test a different NIC to see if the problem
    persists. If it is, then there is a kernel problem, otherwise, it is Intel problem.

        -Jin

    James West wrote:

    > The machine has 256Mb of RAM, 36Gb scsi drive and is a 1.3Ghz AMD cpu.
    >
    > I've switched MAXUSERS back to 0 now, right now before reboot my mbuf sysctl values read:
    >
    > # sysctl -a | grep mbuf
    > kern.ipc.mbuf_wait: 32
    > kern.ipc.nmbufs: 260000
    >
    > I'm stumped, stumped like a tree!
    >
    > James.
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
    > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:51:34 +0200 (CEST)
    > To: James West <jwest254@mail.com>
    > Subject: Re: Major problem with "No buffer space available" errors
    >
    > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, James West wrote:
    > >
    > > > Hmm, kinda made that all confusing sounding, what i mean is i'm having
    > > > the problem with MAXUSERS set to 0 and also when its set to 512.
    > >
    > > You didn't tell us how much memory that box has. MAXUSERS 512 is certainly
    > > a huge number.
    > >
    > > FWIW, I'd suggest you'd go back to MAXUSERS 0 (the auto-tuning of FreeBSD
    > > is quiet ok) and have a look at the mbuf clusters. You can increase them
    > > at boot time if you see you haven't enough.
    > >
    > > regards,
    > > le
    > >
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