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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9785.0. "xdr_bytes size FAILED?" by CSC32::PITT () Mon May 12 1997 13:34

    
    3.2c
    In a crash file we are seeing alot of this:
    
    xdr_bytes: size FAILED                                                          
    xdr_bytes: size FAILED                                                          
    xdr_bytes: size FAILED                                                          
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    xdr_bytes: size FAILED                                                          
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    cant get mbuf                                                                   
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    cant get mbuf                                                                   
    STREAMS: module 'pts' configure failed (22)                                     
    cant get mbuf                                                                   
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    cant get mbuf                                                                   
    STREAMS: module 'pts' configure failed (22)                                     
    cant get mbuf                                                                   
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    cant get mbuf                                                                   
    
            netstat -m  (dec 3600, 64 MbRam).                                       
    
                                                                                    
    
         25 Kbytes for small mbufs (peak usage 280 Kbytes)                          
        426 Kbytes for mbuf clusters (peak usage 5944 Kbytes)                       
         22 Kbytes for sockets (peak usage 36 Kbytes)                               
         29 Kbytes for protocol control blocks (peak usage 42 Kbytes)               
         19 Kbytes for routing table (peak usage 19 Kbytes)                         
          2 Kbytes for interface addresses (peak usage 2 Kbytes)                    
        < 1 Kbyte for ip multicast addresses (peak usage < 1 Kbyte)                 
    
        < 1 Kbyte for interface multicast addresses (peak usage < 1 Kbyte)          
      29513 requests for mbufs denied                                               
          0 calls to protocol drain routines                                        
    521 Kbytes allocated to network                                                 
                                                                                    
    Network threads:   1 netisrthreads configured (peak active   1)                 
    
    
    ????  What is the xdr_bytes size_FAILED telling me??
    (thanks!)
    
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9785.1NNTPD::&quot;[email protected]&quot;Ric WermeMon May 12 1997 16:406
xdr_bytes failure means it wasn't able to copy a chunk of memory from
an internal structure from/to the XDR stream.  The XDR stream in the
kernel is almost always a mbuf chain, so I'd say NFS couldn't get a
mbuf.

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