From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 8:38:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9AB37B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1NGcXM21809; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:38:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can someone explain this to me? References: <3A966F2B.6541B2A@niicommunications.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 23 Feb 2001 11:38:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: jason.hunt@niicommunications.com's message of "23 Feb 2001 15:10:00 +0100" Message-ID: <447l2h1hiu.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jason.hunt@niicommunications.com (Jason Hunt) writes: > /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! > /kernel: xl1: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! > > > I got a couple of these this morning, and not sure what > they are about. thanks for any help. Almost certainly running out of mbufs. You'll need to do some tuning; see the handbook section "Tuning the FreeBSD VM system". For quick tests, you can try using sysctl(8) to kick up kern.ipc.nmbufs, but increasing MAXUSERS might be better than only increasing the number of mbuffs, depending on your application mix. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message