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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:28:16 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Mr. K." <bsd@inbox.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic 
Message-ID:  <199912280428.UAA00870@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:20:14 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.991227231405.22340A-100000@inbox.org> 

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> received the following messages in /var/log/messages, followed by a kernel
> panic (I assume that's why it rebooted, anyway)...
> 
> Dec 27 23:08:36 freebsd50 /kernel: r rx list -- packet dropped!
> Dec 27 23:08:36 freebsd50 /kernel: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet
> dropped!
> Dec 27 23:08:36 freebsd50 last message repeated 177 times
> Dec 27 23:13:50 freebsd50 /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
> 
> What I was doing was making 500 connections from this box to a linux box
> and sending 1 million messages (10 bytes) back and forth.  This box was
> the client, the linux box was the server.  Unfortunately, it looks like
> the linux box won :(.
> 
> Totally untweaked kernel.  I didn't get to tweaking yet.  I shouldn't have
> to tweak anything to make the kernel not panic, though...  Not
> complaining, just pre-empting possible flames.

That's completely incorrect.

> Is this a known problem?  Yes, I should enable crash dumps, I'm going to
> go look for documentation on that now...

You might just try watching the console when the system goes over.  
GENERIC is tuned to work well on a wide range of configurations, not to 
be pounded to death.  Try setting NMBCLUSTERS to something around 10000.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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