no buffer space

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-08-03 08:31, Mark Busby <redtick at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have a firewall for my pppoe dsl connection that is giving me
> fits. After a few hours of surfing it runs out of buffer space. I have
> run memtest on the memory, checked fine. Changed out memory, still
> locking up.
>
>   top while out of buffer on ping
>   last pid: 3697; load averages: 0.00, 0.03, 0.03 up 0+17:04:53 07:09:21
>   47 processes: 1 running, 46 sleeping
>   CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle
>   Mem: 49M Active, 138M Inact, 49M Wired, 16K Cache, 47M Buf, 132M Free
>   Swap: 231M Total, 231M Free
>
>   redtick# ping 75.41.xxx.xx
>   PING 75.41.xxx.xx (75.41.xxx.xx): 56 data bytes
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>   ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>
>   [snip vmstat -i output]
>
>   [snip pciconf output]
>
>   [snip dmesg output]

You forgot to show us your firewall ruleset.