Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:32:16 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Mr. K." <bsd@inbox.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912272129590.10922-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991227231405.22340A-100000@inbox.org>
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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Mr. K. wrote: > 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. > > Is this a known problem? Yes, I should enable crash dumps, I'm going to > go look for documentation on that now... Easy fix: increase NMBCLUSTERS to 6000 or so. Less easy fix: don't use the xl driver, it has a tendency to freak out. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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