Subject: Re: ath Atheros driver no buffer space available and can't power off
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/21/2004 12:22:51
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:02:08PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:01:36AM -0400, Alicia da Conceicao wrote:
> > 1) Every 15 mins or so of light but contineous network activity, like
> > 	SSH and web page browsing, the ath driver would temporarily halt
> > 	all network activity for about 3-5 mins, and if I attempt a ping
> > 	to a local machine on the lan I get:
> > 
> > 	ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> > 
> 
> I think that ath(4) might have a problem with mbuf exhaustion, although
> it is strange if only you and I have noticed.  Does it fully recover
> after 3-5 minutes?  That is strange.  Are you perhaps using your ath in
> ad hoc mode?

BTW, I would like to see the netstat -m output when this happens.  Also,
ifconfig ath0 output.

Dave

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