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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:07:57 +0300
From:      "Mr. Blackman" <blackman@blackman.ru>
To:        "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DoS: socket: No buffer space available
Message-ID:  <01012418184202.31962@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20010124093824.C64654@stat.Duke.EDU>
References:  <01012417332701.31962@localhost.localdomain> <20010124093824.C64654@stat.Duke.EDU>

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options 	NMBCLUSTERS=32768
options	NSFBUFS=32768

...always- this is the first thing, that I made on new servers.
netstat -m - 30% used or so...

I  would like to know all possible reasons of
socket: no buffer space available
(for example:
$sudo bash:
socket: no buffer space available)
> 
> I would guess MBUF exhaustion as the cause. Look at
> 
> netstat -m
> 
> /sys/i386/conf/LINT has some tuning examples. I think this works
> under RELENG_3
> 
> options         NMBCLUSTERS=8192
> 
> (or bigger).  You can also up the # of maxusers to 128 or something
> as this will resize most of the kernel tables. I fear a reboot may
> be the only short term fix.
> 
> S
> -- 
> Sean O'Connell                                Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU
> Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419
> Duke University                               Fax:   (919) 684-8594



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