tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans) (05/07/90)
In article <...>, lynch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes: > > >Why bother with KSTAR 8 then? Going from 7 to 8 costs you about 30 > >buffers - you end up with only 49 free and you can run out easily. > > What happens when you run out of buffers? Does the FastPath hang > or appear to? No, it's well behaved. It just silently drops all incoming packets until it's managed to send a queue'd packet to make room. You can see if this has happened in the Lan Ranger statistics (Buffer Stats - Dropped). While this is happening your print sessions can time out (or slow down) and your AppleShare sessions slow down a lot. Eventually everything retries and it gets going again... --------- Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz.au | Webster Computer Corp P/L | "The concept of my 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd | existence is an Scoresby, Melbourne 3179 | approximation" Victoria, Australia | 61-3-764-1100 FAX ...764-1179 | D. Conway 2109 O'Toole Avenue, Suite J SAN JOSE CA 95131 - 1303 CALIFORNIA 1-408-954-8054 FAX 1-408-954-1832