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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:56:52 +0200
From:      "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        Stephen.Clark@seclark.us
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Kurt Jaeger <pi@c0mplx.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.9 losing mbufs!!!
Message-ID:  <44451A54.1080509@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <44450BFB.1090705@seclark.us>
References:  <4444EE93.9050003@seclark.us>	<20060418143122.GB76356@home.c0mplx.org> <44450BFB.1090705@seclark.us>

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Stephen Clark wrote:
> Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I've looked at the gre code til I am blue in the face and can't see
>>> where mbufs  were not being freed when the quelen is full.
>>>
>>> If anybody could give some direction as where to look or how to
>>> better trouble shoot this problem it would be greatly appreciated.
>>>   
>>
>> Is it possible to upgrade to 4.11p16 ?
>>
>>  
>>
> The problem with that is I would have to upgrade the "world" - I had
> tried putting over a 4.11 kernel and netstat -m wouldn't work, plus who
> knows what else. The recommendation I read was to make buildworld to go
> with the appropriate kernel and I am concerned if the plethora of
> userland stuff, (postgres,php,apache,snort,etc,etc - about 50 ports)
> would have to be recompiled and reinstalled 

4.9 and 4.11 are on the same branch, thus of course, userland programs
don't require recompilation.

> - this would mean we would
> have to go thru major regression testing and of course we need it now.
> 
> The 4.11 kernel that I tried which I had cvsuped on 3-24 to 4.11-STABLE
> still showed the problem.
> 
> Is this problem fixed in 4.11p16?
> 
> 
> Steve
> 



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