Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:06:30 -0400 From: "Joe Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> To: <vaevictus@socket.net>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's Message-ID: <001401bee374$41aa8bc0$0286860a@tasam.com> References: <37b042f0.7cfd.0@socket.net>
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For the network card issue, I suggest that you either upgrade to 3.2-stable or goto http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ and see if there are newer xl0 drives you could use. The later is the simplest, but will require a kernel recompile. I remember a discussion on one of the list a while back. The main idea of it was that increasing individual items such NMBCLUSTERS instead of increasing MAXUSERS will yeild better/more reliable results. Look in LINT for examples of how to do either. Joe Gleason Tasam ----- Original Message ----- From: <vaevictus@socket.net> To: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:19 Subject: Problems with a pair of 3c905b's > I've got a 3.2 box running squid on a Internet routed network and a separate > local network, used by the customers of the ISP I work for. It probably deals > with a significant amount of traffic. Since I brought the machine to life, > I've had virtually no problems. However, occasionally, the server will loose > it's network connectivity. > The console had panic messages of "kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet > dropped!" for xl0 and xl1. > > Upon reboot, the system would be fine. I fear that this has happened before, > and will occur again. In the /var/log/messages archive, I located what looked > like the beginning of the problem, "kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - adjust NMBCLUSTERS > or increase maxusers". I'm running the generic 3.2 kernel which has maxusers > 32, which i thought would be more than sufficient. > NMBCLUSTERS I'm not sure of. > > Does anyone have any suggestions or info about this situation? > > > Nathan Mahon > vaevictus@socket.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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