Subject: Re: problems with outgoing packets, no mbufs
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/11/1998 17:44:58
On Sep 11, Michael C. Richardson wrote
> 
>   I am experiencing problems with a de0 device. Specifically, I get periods
> of very slow network performance. This manifests itself as slow NFS, and
> very unresponsive SSH/xterms. 
>   Looking at the output of netstat -s, I see:
> 
> ip:
>         2704197 packets sent from this host
>         0 packets sent with fabricated ip header
>         3207065 output packets dropped due to no bufs, etc.
> ...
> [...] 

do you have "mb_map full" messages on console ?
If so, try increasing NMBCLUSTERS to 1024, this may help.


--
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
--