Re: (PM) nbuf

Tom (tom@sdf.com)
Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:54:55 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Wayne Wamsley wrote:

> I am noticing the the number of nbufs on the PM3 we have changes quite a
> bit.
> This seems to be affecting the speed of the system as well. When there are
> few
> left the telnet sessions into the PM3 also will not work correctly.
> We currently have 48 K56FLEX modems installed.
> Will increasinng the ram from 4 to 8,16 fix this problem?
>
> One minute there will be 2000 nbufs available and the next less then 50.

Use ptrace to examine packets flowing through the system. You are
probably getting flooded. Are some users complaining about having their
connection freeze? Could be that they are getting flooded.

> Thanks,
>
> Wayne Wamsley
> Mississippi Valley Communications, Inc.
> jwamsley@missvalley.com
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