Re: Running out of buffers?

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 27/04/2018 04:09, Paul Goyette wrote:
> I've got lots of memory, so I don't understand what buffers are not 
> available.  Ever since upgrading to my current system (sources dated 
> 2018-03-20 11:25:00 UTC), I've been seeing these messages at random 
> intervals:
>
> Apr 23 05:51:33 speedy ntpd[526]: routing socket reports: No buffer 
> space available

This may come as some suprise, but the only change is that the error is
now logged. Previously it was silenty discarded.

No-one has yet weighed in on how this should be resolved.


> I never saw them with a previous kernel (from March 3rd), so it
> would seem that something changed between the 3rd and 20th.
>
> Is anyone else seeing similar?
>
> Any clues on what changed?
>
> The situation doesn't seem fatal (at least, not yet), but I'd like
> to mitigate the condition before it gets worse.  :)

Ideas welcome!
The only one stop solution I can think of is increasing the the default
buffer size, but this might adversley affect small memory systems.

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Looking forward to hearimg some!

Roy