Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:45:10 -0400 (EDT) From: David Coder <dacoder@dcoder.com> To: Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> Cc: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Out of buffer space' problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907191643200.42671-100000@doc.dcoder.com> In-Reply-To: <l03130335b3b91acdf341@[140.228.15.35]>
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Robert Beer wrote: > 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 > I've seen mbufs set as high as 32768. dc _____________________ David Coder SysAdmin WebHosting Verio.com 703-749-7955 x1314 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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