> Hi, > > I am new to the group, appreciate if you could answer a couple of queries I > have > > Recently in one of my setups, I got this message continuously. > > too many recvbufs allocated (40) - ntpd > > I checked the code(ntp-4.2.0a) and found that ntpd has 40 recv buffers > allocated for the recv packets. > > My questions: > > 1. What situation causes such syslogs to pop-up ? > > 2. Is it safe to increase the RECV_TOMANY to a larger value ? > > > Thanks > Kiran > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:42:35 GMT > From: Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] too many recvbufs allocated (40) > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kiran Shirol) writes: > > >Hi, > > >I am new to the group, appreciate if you could answer a couple of queries > I > >have > > >Recently in one of my setups, I got this message continuously. > > >too many recvbufs allocated (40) - ntpd > > >I checked the code(ntp-4.2.0a) and found that ntpd has 40 recv buffers > >allocated for the recv packets. > > >My questions: > > >1. What situation causes such syslogs to pop-up ? > > >2. Is it safe to increase the RECV_TOMANY to a larger value ? > > How many servers do you have? What are your minpoll and maxpoll values for > those servers? Are you actually getting through to those servers ( what is > the output of ntpq -p). > > > > >Thanks > >Kiran > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:16:06 +0000 > From: Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] too many recvbufs allocated (40) > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kiran Shirol) writes: > > Kiran> Recently in one of my setups, I got this message continuously. > > Kiran> too many recvbufs allocated (40) - ntpd > > Kiran> I checked the code(ntp-4.2.0a) and found that ntpd has 40 recv > Kiran> buffers allocated for the recv packets. > > I recall a bug like this being fixed a while ago. > > 4.2.0 is pretty old. The latest stable release is 4.2.4, and we are pretty > close to releasing ntp-dev as 4.2.6. > > I recommend you upgrade your ntp software. > > -- > Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member!
Thanks for the responses. I will update to 4.2.4. Regards Kiran _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
