Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 386/ix & ISC X release 1.2
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.122531.9153@virtech.uucp>
Date: 10 Oct 90 12:25:31 GMT
References: <1990Oct06.221058.251@nstar.uucp> <49335@ism780c.isc.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <49335@ism780c.isc.com> support@ism780c.UUCP (Support account) writes:
>In article <1990Oct06.221058.251@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>I noticed the error: Problem with ptr packet: OVERFLOW
>>when running X release 1.2 this afternoon - what does this mean?
>>
>This generally indicates that the system is running out of
>the streams resources NSTREAM, NQUEUE, or NBLKxxx. Try running
>"netstat -m" to observe system usage statistics, and increase
>these tunables accordingly.

The crash command provides a much better mechanism for viewing the
streams statistics.  Just log in as root, run crash (with no
arguments) and then enter "strstat" which will get you something like the
following:

ITEM                  CONFIG   ALLOC    FREE         TOTAL     MAX    FAIL
streams                  512       25     487           478      61       0
queues                  2048      130    1918          1341     324       0
message blocks          4230       79    4151       6617556     283       0
data block totals       3384       79    3305       4911153     282       0
data block size    4     512        0     512         85157       6       0
data block size   16     512       18     494        679478      60       0
data block size   64     512        3     509       3906377      53       0
data block size  128    1024       58     966        224160     181       0
data block size  256     256        0     256          5410       6       0
data block size  512     256        0     256          6219       3       0
data block size 1024     128        0     128          2443       4       0
data block size 2048     128        0     128          1904       5       0
data block size 4096      56        0      56             5       1       0

(which shows that I am majorly overallocated for just about all of these).

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