Re: BNX Double Buffer Allocation

["Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:28:44PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:29:33PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > this opposed to the current situation of wedging the network stack
> > and requiring a reboot to get it back?  the result of killing
> > connections is the same in both cases!
> 
> No reboot needed when I see it, the box recover by itself when the
> stalled TCP connections time out ... so yes, in my case it's better to
> let the TCP mechanism time out conections that are really dead,
> instead of dropping active connections.

you're lucky.  I've been completely wedged for hours at a time.  a panic
and reboot would be less disruptive.

is there any way to find out how many buffers each connection is using?
a combination of netstat -a and -m?

this is all still assuming it is an mbuf issue and something else.  I
still don't know what else draws from mclpool.

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