From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 6 12:46: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d15.as28.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.69.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438C937B403 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 12:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g46JksUm061500; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:46:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g46JkcMc061497; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:46:54 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:46:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: admin Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5 stable & tcpip fix maybe? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020506144517.X60840-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 6 May 2002, admin wrote: > Did any of the last src upgrades make a change that might cause me to get > this error... > > May 5 13:52:05 xXx /kernel: m_retry failed, consider increase mbuf value > May 5 13:52:05 xXx /kernel: m_retryhdr failed, consider increase mbuf > value There's probably no DoS going on here, you're just running out of mbufs clusters; run netstat -m to determine whether this is the case, then read tuning(7) to determine how to increase the number of mbufs allocated. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message