Re: [ECOS] Re: "PANIC: zinit: Out of memory" when num sockets increased to 64

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-04-08, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > > So there's well over 15MB of unallocated RAM. That seems like
> > > more than enough RAM to handle 64 sockets.
> > >    
> > > Why am I getting a panic on startup?
> > The network stack has its own memory pool. See
> >
> > CYGPKG_NET_MEM_USAGE, CYGPKG_NET_MEMPOOL_SIZE, CYGPKG_NET_MBUFS_SIZE,
> > CYGPKG_NET_MBUFS_SIZE.
>
> Several other people seem to have tripped over this bug.  IMO,
> the problem is that the default value takes the number of
> sockets into account, and the description claims that value is
> guaranteed to allow the network stack to start up.
>
> One presumes that the minimum value required for stack startup
> could be calculated at configure time based on the max number
> of sockets.  Since that isn't being done, should I submit a
> patch that would change the description so that it doesn't say
> that it is?

Or, better yet, improve the CDL so it behaves as folks expect :-)

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