From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 7:35:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.net (dt0f4n1e.san.rr.com [24.94.22.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCBE14E23 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@ds9.dreamhaven.org) Received: from data (helo=localhost) by ds9.dreamhaven.net with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11eJJd-0000QG-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:35:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:35:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: "No buffer space" strikes again... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings everyone, I've written in about this a few times, but it seems to be a problem that absolutely refuses to go away. I co-admin 2 FreeBSD servers, one of which hosts some pretty high-volume web sites. Every 5-10 days, the machine has to be rebooted, because messages like this start appearing in the logs: Oct 21 07:07:32 manx proftpd[15912]: socket() failed in inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available Oct 21 07:12:55 manx proftpd[16704]: socket() failed in inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available Oct 21 07:12:56 manx proftpd[16703]: socket() failed in inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available Oct 21 07:13:23 manx proftpd[16739]: socket() failed in inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available Oct 21 07:13:30 manx proftpd[16750]: socket() failed in inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available We're running 3.3-STABLE. We used to use a 3Com 3C905 (Fast EtherLink XL) ethernet card, but were told by some that these cards don't work particularly well under FreeBSD. So, we tried switching to an Intel Pro/100+ ethernet card, but just ran into the same problem. Does anyone have any suggestions of anything else to try, possibly a different ethernet card, tweaks to the OS, patches...? We're stumped. Thanks in advance! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 461599 * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message