Pavan Mirla wrote:
After I use tcpdump to set my interface to promiscuous mode I se that
my mbufs are getting exhausted.I later get the errot "mlcpool reached
it's limit, increase NMBCLUSTERS size. "
netstat -m shows me multiple calls to protocol drain routines.I am
using netBSD version 1.6.
Can someone suggest a way to monitor these buffers and release all of
them when they are getting filled up.Some thing like a garbage
collector to recover from memory leaks.
I don't know of one (you'd have to put it into the kernel, obviously) -
and I don't think you can just free up "all of {the mbufs}" easily, as
you'd have to clear up, for example, each socket in which they're
buffered, and deliver errors to the applications using those sockets.
You should probably report this to the NetBSD developers.
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