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

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