FreeBSD box dropping packets

[Anton Nikiforov]

Hello and thanks for the replay.

Peter Jeremy wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 21:26:56 +0300, Anton Nikiforov wrote:
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>>I have a FreeBSD box running 5.4-RELEASE-p8.
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>>A week ago it was working just properly, but after adding more RAM (2GB 
>>additional RAM, and i do not thing that this is the reason of the 
>>problem) it starts to drop large packets.
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>How much RAM is there now?  Why did you add the additional RAM (since
>you suggest the machine isn't heavily loaded)?  What happens if you
>remove the RAM?
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It currently have 4GB RAM (was only 2). I did not try to remove RAM... 
yet. I'm thinking about adding more adapters to divide traffic into 
pieces. Maybe this wil be the solution?

>It's possible that the additional RAM means that you are running out
>of KVA under high network load.
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KVA? What should i do in this case?

Best regards,
Anton Nikiforov