From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>
To: (Andrew Lunn) <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com, carl@leg.uct.ac.za
Subject: Re: [ECOS] high bandwidth network problems
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 05:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20000906062426.gthomas@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200009061219.OAA01342@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>
On 06-Sep-2000 Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Increasing the memory is not the real solution. The code will cope
> with running out of mbufs, its a normal occurance. Whats wrong is
> printing these messages. Printing these messages is a classic denial
> of service problem. What it should do is limit the number of times it
> prints it, to a maximum of one per second, or even not at all.
>
A reasonable observation. The messages are[were] there simply so we
could see if the code was detecting such conditions and doing the right
thing. If they messages themselves are getting in the way, just nuke 'em.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-06 5:24 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
2000-09-06 5:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2000-09-06 5:24 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
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