On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:19:26PM -0700, Jeff Simmons wrote: > I have an older computer with an Adaptec 4 port ethernet card which was > running 4.6. It's used exclusively as a firewall/router/vpn gateway. Under > 4.6, networking would crash after about a week, requiring a reboot. > /var/log/messages would contain various instances of "/bsd: WARNING: mclpools > limit reached; increase kern.maxclusters". > > I just finished an upgrade to 4.7, and now the networking crashes about once > a > day. Increasing kern.maxclusters only delays this for a while. I suspect > either bad hardware or a hardware incompatibility. Does anyone have an idea > as to what could be causing this? >
There is a memory leak in the sf driver. I once looked over it a bit but did not spot it imediatly and because of the lack of HW I did not investigate further. Maybe I give it another shot next week or if someone is willing to ship a card. -- :wq Claudio