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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:59:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Thomas Cannon <tcannon@noops.org>
To:        Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problem with NIC freeze
Message-ID:  <20011230145646.S18815-100000@stereophonic.noops.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011230213521.7CD3A2AF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org>

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> cable between boxes and it did the same thing. It's something in this server.
> I'll check netstat -m next time it does it. Are there any tweaks I can do if
> it is running out of memory?
>
> Beech

Yes. Rebuild your kernel with something like this in your kernel config
file:

options         NMBCLUSTERS=65535

That'll help alot if it's an mbuf issue. Although, running out of mbufs
still shouldn't cause the card to just die. Likely, it's somewhere else,
but you never know...

-tcannon


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