Re: Running out of nbufs
Jim Forsyth (forsyth@ashford.com)
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 07:24:41 -0700
>Anyway, once every couple of days, one of my six (not always the same
>one) portmasters will start giving "Host is currently Unavailable"
>and it is always the fact that it seems to run out of memory. ie 16
>or so nbufs available when doing a show mem. A reset all and a reboot will
> fix it, but of course I lose whoever is online.
>
>It is not always the same portmaster, or users on ,or anything that I
>can see in common.
>
>Normally they sit with over 1000 nbufs available. I don't have any
>idle times set but this is handled by my UNIX box so I am reasonably
>sure *wince* that it not a hung port causing the problem.
>
>Has anyone out there in Livingston Land had the same problem?
>
>Solutions?
>
>Sympathy maybe?
>
Just yesterday a couple of my users reported getting a "Host is
currently Unavailable" message, it hadn't occured to me that it could be
coming from the Portmaster. Sounds like it could be the same problem, I will
keep an eye on the memory/nbufs. I am using 3.1.4, how about you?
Jim Forsyth