From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 14:20:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA06020 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05976 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA28395 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:19:56 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA12498; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:18:55 -0700 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:18:55 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199603152218.PAA12498@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jay L. West" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!! Severe PPP problems! In-Reply-To: <199603140946.JAA02128@bsd.tseinc.com> References: <199603140946.JAA02128@bsd.tseinc.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > After a fresh boot everything runs great for from 30 minutes to 2 hours > roughly. Then I notice via systat -pigs and ps -aux that the ppp daemon > running the connection to our provider starts using 124% of the cpu. You're using PPP on 2.0.5 on a dedicated line? That's scary! :) > problems. Sometimes systat will say segmentation fault. The ppp link via > ISDN to our provider is running at 155200k baud on a 16550 UART. We're > running 2.0.5 on a 486dx4/100 with 16mb of RAM. Hmmmmm... > generated the message 'no buffer space available' I set NMBCLUSTERS to 1500 > and then later set it to 2048. I have spent two days trying to trouble shoot > the problem and customers are getting upset (there's a euphamism ): ). *grin* > Any help would be very very very much appreciated. We may try to > upgrade with a fresh install to 2.1 if that would help. Does anyone > have any ideas? Please? My suggestion is to upgrade to -stable and run pppd in a shell loop if you are running a dedicated service. However, the ppp program in -stable should be better, and may solve your problems *IF* you want to stick with it. Nate