From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 22:37:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B971518E for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/6) with ESMTP id HAA16655; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:32:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id HAA29941; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:32:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.2/8.6.9) id HAA56252; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:32:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:32:37 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Christoph Kukulies , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbufs eaten up - when pinging Message-ID: <19990825073237.C56156@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <199908241554.RAA52254@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <199908241447.QAA19160@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: <199908241447.QAA19160@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 04:47:03PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 04:47:03PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > With a non-functioning route over isdn (i4b) I'm observing > > that mbufs allocated soon reach the limit and then I'm getting > > 'no buffer space' available. I'm not sure whether > > 'no buffer space' often comes when the output IFQ is full, which is > between 20 and 50 buffers. Are you sure you are seeing more than those > mbufs in use ? It occurs when about 105/128 mbufs (94%) are used. But Gary gave a plausible (is there such a word in english ? - no Webster in reach at the Moment :-) explanation. > > luigi -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message