Subject: Re: NMBCLUSTERS being reused?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/06/2002 11:33:21
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:54:15PM -0800, David S. wrote:
> > But the curious thing is.  Now I can scp a 50 MB file and don't run out
> > of buffers.  BUT then the next time I try to send a large file (say 30MB),
> > it gets partway through and runs out of buffers.  Could there be a
> > nmbcluster leak?
> 
> Before blaming a memory leak, I'd try another card.  Those Realtek ones
> are crap.

I can't see how a networking card could eat up all software buffers unless
the driver was seriously broken - which is not a problem in the card, but
in the driver.

Not saying that rtk cards were good..

  -jm