On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:18:10AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> I notice that if_fxp.c seems to fail silently when unable to
> allocate network buffers, perhaps the fact that the kernel can
> be doing about 200 or more messages per-second makes me guess
> that it's not helping things, especially when the box has a
> serial console.
> 
> I'm taking the printf's out of my copy of if_xl.c on a 3.5
> system, I'll let you know if it still goes nuts for extended
> amounts of time.

You could change the printf()'s to log()'s, and allow syslogd
to filter/combine/report them on your console.  I'm sure you
already know this, you could increase NBMCLUSTERS and friends
in your kernel config, or at boot time.  (For posterity in
the list archives).

 - Steve

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