Re: (PM) nbuffs

Juergen Hoetzel EDV-Hiwi (jhoetzel@hiwi.zew.de)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 15:39:18 +0200 (MET DST)

On Fri, 29 May 1998, Josh Richards wrote:

> 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.

portmaster> show netstat
Name Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Resets Queue
ether0 493371 0 37629 4 449 5

peculiary syncppp works!

Juergen
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