> I'd be looking at the state of your mbufs as well. man netstat
>
>
Thanks Aaron,
these systems are currently running with load very low. From one of the
boxes with
the problem:
bmr1.mlt# uptime
11:33AM up 13 days, 1:04, 1 user, load averages: 0.15, 0.17, 0.11
bmr1.mlt# netstat -m
102 mbufs in use:
81 mbufs allocated to data
4 mbufs allocated to packet headers
17 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses
69/310/6144 mbuf 2048 byte clusters in use (current/peak/max)
0/8/6144 mbuf 4096 byte clusters in use (current/peak/max)
0/8/6144 mbuf 8192 byte clusters in use (current/peak/max)
0/8/6144 mbuf 9216 byte clusters in use (current/peak/max)
0/8/6144 mbuf 12288 byte clusters in use (current/peak/max)
0/8/6144 mbuf 16384 byte clusters in use (current/peak/max)
0/8/6144 mbuf 65536 byte clusters in use (current/peak/max)
900 Kbytes allocated to network (18% in use)
0 requests for memory denied
0 requests for memory delayed
0 calls to protocol drain routines
bmr1.mlt#
bmr1.mlt# vmstat -m
...
Memory Totals: In Use Free Requests
3756K 210K 3844873
...
In use 6468K, total allocated 32928K; utilization 19.6%
bmr1.mlt#
They are basically standard setups with ipsec,bgpd,gre,carp and vlans,
small and simple configs, low number of interfaces. Not even any packages
added.