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RE: high bandwidth network problems
- To: Carl van Schaik <carl at leg dot uct dot ac dot za>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] high bandwidth network problems
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:13:19 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: Ecos Mailing List <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
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.