{Spam?} no buffer space available

Travis H. solinym at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 12:01:22 UTC 2006


On 3/23/06, Daniel Hartmeier <daniel at benzedrine.cx> wrote:
> If it were an mbuf leak, it wouldn't go away right after you run pfctl
> -d, as disabling pf will not cause any memory to get released at all.
>
> You might simply be hitting the (default) 10,000 state entry limit,
> check pfctl -si output. If so, increase it with 'set limit states'.

I've deliberately set my state table to be small, thinking it would
use less mbufs, and that didn't help.  I'll try setting it high soon. 
I did recover the box by flushing all pf stuff, but it didn't stay
working for very long.
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