Subject: What to do about "No buffer space available"?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/24/1999 09:12:31
Hello,

I'm running NetBSD/i386 1.3.3 on a system with 128MB RAM and 128MB
swap. Whenever I try to update my cvs source tree for mozilla my network
connections "freeze" and I am unable to establish new network connections
until I reboot my machine. In a window where I had ping running (I was
pinging my ISP's side of the PPP connection), I see the following:

64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1290 ttl=255 time=170.140 ms
64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1291 ttl=255 time=169.253 ms
64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1292 ttl=255 time=7968.977 ms
64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1293 ttl=255 time=7589.670 ms
64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1294 ttl=255 time=6649.588 ms
64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1295 ttl=255 time=5688.106 ms
64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1296 ttl=255 time=5007.992 ms
64 bytes from 207.225.140.39: icmp_seq=1297 ttl=255 time=7217.116 ms

ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space available


What can I do about this?? Is there any way for me to monitor the amount
of available buffer space? (I assume these buffers are in the kernel,
right?)


Thanks,

Brian

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