Re: (PM) nbuffs

Josh Richards (jrichard@livingston.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 12:10:38 -0700 (PDT)

On 29 May 1998, Juergen Hoetzel EDV-Hiwi wrote:

> After a reboot everything works fine, but after some dialins the user
> can't use tcp/ip(they get the assigned IP-Adress but can't ping
> "portmaster_ip_adress" ipx makes no trouble. On the portmaster
> console(with debugging enabled) i get the following message:
>
> e_get_packet: Packet Not available
> n_send: Couldnt send - packet not available
>
> "show memory" reports:
> System memory 4194304 bytes - 932144 used, 3262160 available
> 272:3 160:1 2048:1 144:2 96:0 176:1 1152:0 128:1 640:1 80:1 16:23 32:30
> 48:3
> System nbufs 1400 - 1144 used, 256 available
>
> And i never get more than 260 Buffers available(only after i reboot!)
>
> When this problem occurs the portmaster often reboots itself.
> After rebooting, everything works fine again (until the problem occurs for
> the next time).
> After reboot "show memory" reports:
> System memory 4194304 bytes - 922720 used, 3271584 available
> 144:1 96:0 80:3 16:14 32:32 48:0
> System nbufs 1400 - 50 used, 1350 available

Send us the output of a "show netstat" (not netcon). The box looks like
it is getting hit extremely hard from the network side for some reason.

-jr

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