I agree I don't give much information. I have no idea what information to give.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Marcus MERIGHI Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:13 AM To: Peter Fraser <p...@thinkage.ca> Cc: 'misc@openbsd.org' <misc@openbsd.org> Subject: Re: sendsyslog: dropped 4 messages, error 55 p...@thinkage.ca (Peter Fraser), 2017.01.30 (Mon) 18:17 (CET): > My /var/log/messages is filling up with messages like the following: > > Jan 30 10:28:06 gateway sendsyslog: dropped 4 messages, error 55 Jan > 30 10:28:06 gateway sendsyslog: dropped 2 messages, error 55 Jan 30 > 10:28:06 gateway sendsyslog: dropped 2 messages, error 55 Jan 30 > 10:28:06 gateway sendsyslog: dropped 1 message, error 55 Jan 30 > 10:28:06 gateway sendsyslog: dropped 2 messages, error 55 Jan 30 > 10:28:06 gateway last message repeated 2 times Jan 30 10:28:06 gateway > sendsyslog: dropped 4 messages, error 55 Jan 30 10:28:06 gateway > sendsyslog: dropped 2 messages, error 55 Jan 30 10:28:06 gateway last > message repeated 2 times Jan 30 10:28:06 gateway sendsyslog: dropped 1 > message, error 55 Jan 30 10:28:06 gateway sendsyslog: dropped 1 > message, error 55 > > The messages occur in bursts with several hundred messages per burst, > and here may be several seconds or hours between the bursts. > > I am quite willing to believe that I have done something stupid, but I > have no idea what. > Any hints to find out what is generating these messages. src/lib/libc/gen/syslog_r.c, 188: * If the sendsyslog() fails, it means that syslogd * is not running or the kernel ran out of buffers. sendsyslog(2) RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. errno(2) 55 ENOBUFS No buffer space available. An operation on a socket or pipe was not performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer space or because a queue was full. But I can't tell you why your kernel is running out of buffers. You did not give much information... Marcus > !DSPAM:588f7557249121949212877!
