Subject: Re: Newish Intel wm NIC issues
To: NetBSD current-users <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/10/2006 11:50:03
On Apr 9, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:05:41PM -0400, Chris Tribo wrote:
>> This is a dual, dual-core HT EM64T Xeon PowerEdge 2850 with 12 GB of
>> RAM. wm0 and wm1 are the two identical onboard GigE NICs, wm2 through
>> wm7 are identical dual port PCI-X cards. This is an i386 kernel, not
>> amd64 (yet).
>>
>> ...
>> [...]
>> wm7: link state changed to DOWN
>> wm4: unable to allocate or map rx buffer 232, error = 55
>
> You need to increase NMBCLUSTERS, it's too low for that many wm  
> interfaces.
> Try
> options NMBCLUSTERS=8192
>
> this may not be enouth, maybe you need 16384 or 32768

Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. I just went straight to  
32768.

Chris