On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:58:23AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Bruce Cran wrote:
> > Also, I'm getting
> > several thousand 'lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer' messages.
> > Could this be the problem, or is the system just not powerful enough do
> > nat?  The sis0 card is 100MBit PCI, while the lcn0 is 10MBit ISA.
> 
> The "no receive buffers available" message happens when the
> system runs out of mbufs.
> 
> There are a lot of reasons this could happen, but the proximal
> cause is you didn't tune the number NMBCLUSTERS, et. al. high
> enough.  You should try rebuilding your kernel with a larger
> number.
> 
> If the problem still happens, you need to do a "netstat -a > x",
> and then look for large numbers in the "Recv-Q" and "Send-Q"
> columns, and then figure out what's causing them.
> 

Thanks, I added kern.ipc.nmbclusters=8192 to /boot/loader.conf and the
messages have stopped.   I have also learnt that the high CPU usage is
simply because I'm trying to push 600KB/sec over an ISA bus, and lots
of copying is going on.   I'd like to get a PCI card and stop using the
onboard lnc, but unfortunately the single PCI slot is already taken up
by other other NIC.

Bruce Cran

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