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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:11:37 -0500
From:      "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG>
To:        'Benjamin Krueger' <benjamin@macguire.net>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Network issues...
Message-ID:  <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDCBB@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>

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Benjamin Krueger wrote:
>Ricky Morse wrote:
>> 
>> 	ping: sendto: no buffer space available
>
>Ricky, it sounds like you're running low on mbufs,and I'm willing to bet
that
>you'll find your system logs littered with messages from the kernel
regarding
>mbuf allocation failures. To verify this is the case if you see this
behavior
>again, type 'netstat -m' to see the current mbuf statistics. If you find
that
>this is your problem and you're running a release below 4.5, you will need
to
>recompile your kernel with 'options NMBCLUSTERS=' with a larger number that
>will suit your needs. (The default is 1024)

Which system logs should I look in?  Neither console.log, maillog, messages,
nor dmesg report anything about mbufs....

Thanks,
Ricky

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