Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:22:15 -0400 From: Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> To: "Tim Pushor" <timp@orion.ab.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'Out of buffer space' problem Message-ID: <l03130335b3b91acdf341@[140.228.15.35]> In-Reply-To: <000d01bed20d$15024270$9828f99f@shl.com>
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At 1:34 PM -0400 7/19/1999, Tim Pushor wrote: >I work for a rather large organization and have convinced management to >replace our aging AIX SMTP relays/DNS servers with Compaq Servers running >FreeBSD. Saturday I had officially turned off our old AIX boxes and were >running on pure FreeBSD boxes. > >On the first full day of production, half way through (today) one of the >boxes that the companies primary DNS was running on stopped responding. The >error I was getting was 'out of buffer space'. Use netstat -m to check on mbufs. Check the network connections with netstat -anfinet If this is running low you will need to compile a custom kernel and increase this to maybe 4096. You may also want to check on maxusers and set that up to 128. >Can anyone out there help me track the problem down? I know there can be >several factors involved, but I *really* have to get this one licked rather >quickly. Watch the logs in the /var/log directory. Look at man pages for the commands: top vmstat iostat --- Bob Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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