Re: no buffer space available

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com>]

--On March 20, 2007 12:38:33 PM +0500 Timur Irmatov <irmatov@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We are small ISP, and we are experiencing some strange problem with
> our two PPPoE servers. They are running Debian Etch, all software from
> official repositories. Our management prefers Gentoo Linux
> distribution, so as soon as they will be aware of this problem they
> will blame Debian at first. ;-)
>
> The machines have identical hardware: nvidia-based motherboard (some
> desktop shit, nobody asked us when hardware were bought), realtek 8139
> network card, amd 64 dual core processor, 2 Gigs of RAM, SATA on board
> (nvidia mcp51). Each has about 50 network interfaces (vlan), with /24
> private networks on each. Services include dhcp, bind, pppoe in kernel
> mode.

The realtek 8139 isn't really well suited to server type deployment.  I'd 
give a different ethernet adapter a try too if nothing else seems to clear 
it up.  Could be the adapter or it's drivers leaking resources.