From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 20 14:38:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4711C14C3D; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:37:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA23681; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA11107; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:20:23 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA13884; Mon, 20 Sep 99 14:32:55 PDT Message-Id: <37E6A807.7E07D48A@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:32:55 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , jcarlos@bahianet.com.br, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG, hitech@bahianet.com.br Subject: Re: Out of mbuf clusters References: <199909201247.OAA08309@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 2:47 PM +0200 1999/9/20, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Reading the list it seems to me that you have forgotten rule #7: > > [ ... deletia ... ] > > > 7) Don't run an IRC server. > > And rule #8: > > 8) Grok every single line of source code throughout the entire > OS and be able to recode them all in machine language (assembly is > for wussies), or you are too stupid to run FreeBSD. Please add to that rule #10: 10) Accept that the people you are asking the question of MIGHT know a little bit more about the problem than you do, and be open to their advice, even if it doesn't fit your preconceived notion of what the solution might be. Granted, the answer DES gave was a little cryptic. He was also pointing out some of the crucial operational knowlege you need to SUCCESSFULLY operate an IRC server. Let me paraphrase the simple answer: "You're running out of mbuf clusters, which causes FreeBSD panic. It is quite simple to expand the number of mbuf clusters in your system. Go search for the phrase 'mbuf clusters' in the FreeBSD handbook or the -questions archives if you don't already know how to." It seems highly likely that ridiculing those who not only took the time to respond to your question, but also to GIVE YOU THE SYSTEM IN THE FIRST PLACE is NOT a good strategy for getting more questions answered in the future. Having a sense of humor will certainly help. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message