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RE: "no buffer space available" on Win2K
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:57:31 +0100
- Subject: RE: "no buffer space available" on Win2K
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
it shouldnt be, but it'll monitor it for a bit with perfmon to check (this
is something that doesnt happen if i am not running cygwin apps though.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: 30 April 2003 18:32
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: "no buffer space available" on Win2K
>
>
> Vince,
>
> Is your machine under heavy load or under heavy network load? I am
> wondering if some buffer on your network card is actually being
> overfilled, rather than Windows reporting that a socket-layer
> buffer is
> being overfilled.
>
> Harold
>
> Vince Hoffman wrote:
> > Harold,
> > Its a Compaq NS3161 fast ethernet.
> > The closest I can find to something that could have
> modified the tcp stack
> > is IIS URLscan but I'm not sure that would have changed
> anything but IIS.
> > I'm working on finding something that will easily replicate the
> > problem but its not easy. I have an strace of an ncftp that
> was running at
> > the time it happened but it just shows
> > 1192 1291766386 [main] ncftp 1044 start_thread_socket:
> listen failed, Win32
> > error 10055 (which is the out of buffer error)
> > Its been a while since i had it happen with X (i dont use
> it as much as I
> > did) but i'll keep trying and let people know if I find anything.
> >
> > Vince
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> >>Sent: 30 April 2003 14:00
> >>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> >>Subject: Re: "no buffer space available" on Win2K
> >>
> >>
> >>Vince,
> >>
> >>Hmm... what sort of network card have you got on your
> >>machine? Can you
> >>take a look around for software in the start menu and add/remove
> >>programs that sounds like it might provide VPN or firewall services?
> >>
> >>Harold
> >>
> >>Vince Hoffman wrote:
> >>
> >>>Nope, to the best of my knowledge there has been nothing
> >>
> >>that has altered
> >>
> >>>the IP stack ( note the to the best of my knowledge as I am
> >>
> >>not the only
> >>
> >>>person with access to these machines)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> >>>>Sent: 30 April 2003 13:24
> >>>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> >>>>Subject: Re: "no buffer space available" on Win2K
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Andrew,
> >>>>
> >>>>Good point.
> >>>>
> >>>>Have either of you ever installed any VPN or firewall
> >>>>software on your
> >>>>computers? (Note: I did not ask "are you running" any such
> >>>>software. I
> >>>>want to know if it has ever, in the history of your Windows
> >>>>installation, been installed.)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Harold
> >>>>
> >>>>Andrew Markebo wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hmm any firewall? uh.. stuff sliding in in the network
> >>
> >>stack? (whats
> >>
> >>>>>their name, you know distributing networks encrypted,
> >>
> >>killing spam?)
> >>
> >>>>> /Andy
> >>>>>
> >>>>
>