Waiting for mbufs

gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Mar 12 23:16:08 UTC 2003


Till Straumann writes:
 > Here's the output of rtems_bsdnet_show_mbuf_stats()
 > 
 > The 'free' after 'clusters' shows you the number of
 > free clusters (which should in your case be 0 since
 > you get the 'Still waiting for mbuf cluster' message.
 > 
 > The 'free' in the 3rd line gives you the number of
 > free mbufs (which is not of interest here).
 > 
 > If you have enough memory, you can simply increase
 > the memory set aside for mbuf clusters in your bsdnet
 > configuration table.
 > 
 > ************ MBUF STATISTICS ************
 > mbufs:1440    clusters: 175    free: 143
 > drops:   0       waits:   0  drains:   0
 >        free:1406          data:33          header:1           socket:0 
 > 
 >         pcb:0           rtable:0           htable:0           atable:0 
 > 
 >      soname:0           soopts:0           ftable:0           rights:0 
 > 
 >      ifaddr:0          control:0          oobdata:0
 > 

The problem is clusters stays at 64, I'm testing now to see if the
CLFREE is somehow putting NULL onto the top of the free list...

Gregm





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