syslogd not draining

[Borja Marcos]

> I've got a machine running syslogd, DNS, DHCP, flow-capture, and other
> assorted UDP-loving programs.  Occasionally, they all stop working.
> The machine has been up for a couple of hours now, and I see:
>
> ns1/etc;netstat -s | grep full
> Warning: sysctl(net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats): No such file or directory
>         122066 dropped due to full socket buffers
> ns1/etc;
>
> I've doubled kern.ipc.maxsockbuf a couple of times now, and yet it
> still happens.
>
> After some help from questions@, I'm pretty sure that the culprit is
> syslogd.
>
> udp4       0      0  *.67                   *.*
> udp4   43414      0  *.514                  *.*
> udp4       0      0  *.49661                *.*

Are you using a serial console? I had similar problems in the past  
due to the serial port flow control.






Borja.