From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 13:55:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26432 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26425 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA13274; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:54:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Alex Osokin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp roblem - low in memory In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alex Osokin wrote: > I'm running 2.2.5 with 16 RAM to connect to my ISP during workday. > Cron starts and stops scheduled ppp connection - all ok here. > But after having ppp (with -auto switch) to redial 5-6 times due line > disconnect it can't establish connection. In ppp.log I found: > "Connect: Low in memory; try again later" > But according to top, for example, system have free memory and enough swap > space, and I have running only ppp and squid. > Only rebooting allow ppp to work properly again. > > Any ideas? You need to get some hard evidence. You're either running into login.conf limits and/or there's a memory leak in ppp. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message