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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Subject: Re: sendto() buffer exhausted in 2.1.0-RELEASE... Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Message-ID: <DLIJpH.C7x@twwells.com> References: <4dotbj$2fo@nntp.msstate.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 04:12:52 GMT Lines: 14 In article <4dotbj$2fo@nntp.msstate.edu>, David Simmons <simmons@aris.com> wrote: : I had to reboot the machine to clear up the problem. What would cause : the kernel buffers to become exhausted? Is there a known bug or memory : leak in 2.1.0-RELEASE that would lead to this? We just upgraded the : kernel to 2.1.0-RELEASE recently. I'd been running 2.0.5 and then upgraded to 2.1.0. 2.0.5 did OK. 2.1 found itself running into the limit on mbufs. I've upped the number of mbufs so it can run but I still think there's a problem. What I saw when I was looking was a *lot* of connections with what seemed like an excessive amount of stuff in the output queue. No idea if that's significant or not....