SUMMARY: le0: out of mbufs

From: Anthony Hunter (ahunter@shl.com)
Date: Tue Aug 10 1993 - 00:42:18 CDT


The original query:
>I go the following messages on my SPARCstation 2 running SUN O/S 4.1.1
>last night before it crashed. Does this mean anything to anyone ?

>Jul 27 04:40:17 gpw2 last message repeated 3 times
>Jul 27 04:43:17 gpw2 vmunix: le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped
>Jul 27 04:46:17 gpw2 vmunix: le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped
>Jul 27 04:55:17 gpw2 last message repeated 3 times
>Jul 27 04:58:17 gpw2 vmunix: le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped
>Jul 27 05:01:17 gpw2 vmunix: le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped
>Jul 27 05:10:17 gpw2 last message repeated 3 times
>Jul 27 07:25:50 gpw2 vmunix: panic: zero
>Jul 27 07:25:50 gpw2 vmunix: syncing file systems... 2 done

>The machine is fine now. As far as I can tell, the only thing that should
>have been running was dump (backups).

The problem was related to an overloaded ethernet. Several responses mentioned
a patch 100330-06, it will increase the number of available mbufs and
prevent this problem.

Thanks to and any others:

"John W. Cieply" <JWC@icf.hrb.com>
eparr@gsscwest.com (Eric Parr)
Pat Cain (Denver) <pjc@denver.ssds.COM>
thys@dsy-srv3.cern.ch (Thys Antoine /CN/CE 4918)
ericb@telecnnct.com (Eric Burger)
Steve_Kilbane@gec-epl.co.uk
dougj@iplab.health.ufl.edu (Doug Jones)
jdschn@nicsn1.monsanto.com (John D Schneider)
helios!electron.var.com!scb@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Brown)
ewenb@nwtss1.gs.com (Britt Ewen)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)

AHunter@shl.com



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