On 10/7/09, Boris Kochergin <sp...@acm.poly.edu> wrote: > Rui Paulo wrote: >> On 7 Oct 2009, at 20:04, Boris Kochergin wrote: >>> >>> The heavily-used ones exhibit the problem described at: >>> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-September/022894.html >>> >>> >>> >>> ...but that's a driver, not a hardware, issue. The one in the router >>> at my house doesn't exhibit the problem, the two differences there >>> being that the machine is 7.0-RELEASE, and there are only a couple of >>> clients connected to it, as opposed to the ~30 connected to my >>> heavily-used ones. >> >> Are you sure you have sufficient RAM to hold 30 users? >> >> What you seem to be saying is that the ath driver is leaking mbufs and >> hence you get a panic, right? >> >> -- >> Rui Paulo >> >> >> > Pretty sure. The Soekris has 256 MB of RAM. I suspect that it's a leak > because things are usually great, even with ~30 users, with the > "80211node" portion from "vmstat -m" only taking a few hundred KiB of > RAM. Every few days, it spikes to over 100 MiB, and the "ath0:
Interesting, is it actually memory leak? (I try to hunt one down when using if_ndis(4) but without success) > ath_rx_proc: no mbuf!" kernel messages appear, often followed by a > panic. I haven't had time to try another rate-control algorithm, as per > the responses to my post, but I'll report back when I do get around to it. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
