brinkema@fjc.GOV (John R. Brinkema) (04/11/91)
Two messages were found on the console of a ISC 2.2 Unix system: Kernel: Allocq: out of queues Kernel: stropen: out of queues These messages apparently are printed when the system runs out of streams queues (# defined by NQUEUE); they are 'soft' errors: error noted, the process that got caught probobly got smushed, but the systems as a whole goes on. I ran 'netstat -m' and sure enough, the queues entry showed that there were 8 allocation failures. I also noted that there were only three times the the number of queues as streams (there should be four) so I will reconfigure the system in the near future. BUT --- There is no active network on the system. There is a ethernet wire connected to the system, but there are no other systems attached (currently -- there was one earlier in the week, but it was accidently removed (thinnet, ya know). The console does have some (three) virtual terminals associated with the actual one. What is causing the queue allocations. The netstat -m command showed that a max of 300(!) queues were allocated (the current limit). There were some small number of streams allocated (but nothing like 300/4). So what was allocating the queues? What is using streams (this is ISC 2.2 remember with no active network). I am at a loss for an explanation. jb. 8 stream