Ok, thanks for the tip. I've removed the settings through sysctl, but unfortunately I still see those alerts being triggered, then mostly resolved during the next check.
The system seems to have some issues during heavy UDP session bursts (the monitoring system issues a stream of requests to a couple hundred systems), yet all system resources seem OK. I have looked at port switches and there are no Ethernet errors either. Any other hints or settings I should look at would be very appreciated. The connections are going through Intel PRO/1000 PT interfaces. Here's the DMESG, in case. Thanks again. ------------ OpenBSD 4.8 (GENERIC.MP) #335: Mon Aug 16 09:09:20 MDT 2010 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 3483697152 (3322MB) avail mem = 3377143808 (3220MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xcfb9c000 (66 entries) bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "2.2.6" date 02/05/2008 bios0: Dell Inc. PowerEdge 1950 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC SPCR HPET MCFG WD__ SLIC ERST HEST BERT EINJ TCPA acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz, 1995.29 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,NXE,LONG cpu0: 6MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 332MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz, 1995.02 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,NXE,LONG cpu1: 6MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz, 1995.02 MHz cpu2: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,NXE,LONG cpu2: 6MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor) cpu3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz, 1995.02 MHz cpu3: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,NXE,LONG cpu3: 6MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 4 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 4 (PEX2) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 5 (UPST) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 6 (DWN1) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 8 (DWN2) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEX3) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PE2P) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 10 (PEX4) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 12 (PEX6) acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus 2 (SBEX) acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus 14 (COMP) acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3 acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3 acpicpu2 at acpi0: C3 acpicpu3 at acpi0: C3 ipmi at mainbus0 not configured pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 5000X Host" rev 0x12 ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci1 at ppb0 bus 4 ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci2 at ppb1 bus 5 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci3 at ppb2 bus 6 ppb3 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3 pci4 at ppb3 bus 7 bnx0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: apic 4 int 16 (irq 6) ppb4 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci5 at ppb4 bus 8 ppb5 at pci1 dev 0 function 3 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x01 pci6 at ppb5 bus 9 ppb6 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci7 at ppb6 bus 1 mfi0 at pci7 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic SAS1078" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 16 (irq 6), Dell PERC 6/i integrated mfi0: logical drives 1, version 6.0.2-0002, 256MB RAM scsibus0 at mfi0: 1 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 6/i, 1.11> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 69376MB, 512 bytes/sec, 142082048 sec total ppb7 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE x8" rev 0x12: apic 4 int 16 (irq 0) pci8 at ppb7 bus 10 em0 at pci8 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000 PT (82571EB)" rev 0x06: apic 4 int 16 (irq 6), address 00:15:17:19:96:98 em1 at pci8 dev 0 function 1 "Intel PRO/1000 PT (82571EB)" rev 0x06: apic 4 int 17 (irq 5), address 00:15:17:19:96:99 ppb8 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci9 at ppb8 bus 11 ppb9 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE x8" rev 0x12: apic 4 int 16 (irq 0) pci10 at ppb9 bus 12 em2 at pci10 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000 PT (82571EB)" rev 0x06: apic 4 int 16 (irq 6), address 00:15:17:19:95:84 em3 at pci10 dev 0 function 1 "Intel PRO/1000 PT (82571EB)" rev 0x06: apic 4 int 17 (irq 5), address 00:15:17:19:95:85 ppb10 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci11 at ppb10 bus 13 pchb1 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb2 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb3 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb4 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12 pchb5 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12 pchb6 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12 pchb7 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12 ppb11 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x09 pci12 at ppb11 bus 2 ppb12 at pci12 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3 pci13 at ppb12 bus 3 bnx1 at pci13 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: apic 4 int 16 (irq 6) uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 21 (irq 11) uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 20 (irq 10) uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 21 (irq 11) uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 20 (irq 10) ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 21 (irq 11) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb13 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xd9 pci14 at ppb13 bus 14 vga1 at pci14 dev 13 function 0 "ATI ES1000" rev 0x02 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) radeondrm0 at vga1: apic 4 int 19 (irq 11) drm0 at radeondrm0 pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB LPC" rev 0x09 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB IDE" rev 0x09: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, DVD-ROM DV28EV, D.AE> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhub5 at uhub0 port 5 "Cypress Semiconductor USB2 Hub" rev 2.00/0.0b addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Dell Dell USB Keyboard" rev 1.10/3.01 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 softraid0 at root root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted bnx0: address 00:1e:c9:b3:5c:4e brgphy0 at bnx0 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6 bnx1: address 00:1e:c9:b3:5c:4c brgphy1 at bnx1 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6