What do the lines in netstat tell you

[aarne]

Hi


If I write netstat -m and get fail's in some lines, ex.
in class 6 in this case, do I know what causes those errors. All the other lines are clean.
Hw is IBM server and sw is sco 5.0.5
netstat -m
streams allocation:
config alloc free total max fail
class 6, 2048 bytes 7587 646 6941 1369362 10476 4212

total configured streams memory: 19664.00KB
streams memory in use: 4408.34KB
maximum streams memory used: 24593.23KB

 

[Annihilannic]

If you go into scoadmin, choose "Hardware/Kernel manager", and then "Tuning Parameters...", option 12, you can adjust the streams resources allocated there. You could probably start by just increasing NSTREAM... Annihilannic.

 

[mcr1]

Hi.
Has anyone figured out what causes these huge numbers in Class 6. I have SCO servers on the same subnet and all experience this problem. When the number of streams memory used exceeds the number configured, it normally takes the server off the network, ie: the server does not respond in anyway to the network. The only way thing left to do is from the console reboot. Changing the number of streams configured just lengthens the time between reboots.
Mcr1

 

[stanhubble]

The most likely cause is a device on your network that is producing malformed packets.

A bad network card can do this.
A bad driver can do this.
A flakey switch can do this.
A windows machine with a virus can do this.

process of elimination. what was added/changed when this started?

 

[PHV]

A samba 2.2.x seems to do this too. Apparently solved either by OSR 5.0.6a or by samba 3.x

Hope This Help
PH.