From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>
To: Carl van Schaik <carl@leg.uct.ac.za>
Cc: Ecos Mailing List <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [ECOS] high bandwidth network problems
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 05:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20000906061319.gthomas@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009061244170.11871-100000@dreamcoat.che.uct.ac.za>
On 06-Sep-2000 Carl van Schaik wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have my board connected to our backbone which has a huge ammount of
> broadcast traffic continously (nearly 2000 machines), after a while, ecos
> starts spewing out messages: and stops responding to network traffic.
>
> warning: eth_recv out of MBUFs
> setsoftnet
>
> Can anyone tell me what the setsoftnet is supposed to do? Do I have to
> implement somthing in the network driver? What can I do to
> prevent this from occuring?
>
Try increasing the number of mbufs. Set the configuration parameter
CYGPKG_NET_MEM_USAGE to something larger (the default is 256*1024).
Do you have the latest code from CVS? I seem to recall something in there
about an mbuf memory leak which was fixed recently. This might help.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-06 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-06 2:58 Carl van Schaik
2000-09-06 5:13 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2000-09-06 5:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2000-09-06 5:24 ` Gary Thomas
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