What buffer space is related to "sendto failed: No buffer space available" log entries?

nusenu nusenu-lists at riseup.net
Tue Jan 8 19:27:00 UTC 2019


Hi Wouter,

thanks for your reply.

Wouter Wijngaards via Unbound-users:
> What I think happens is that this is so-sndbuf for UDP packets, and the
> so-sndbuf option solves it.  But you already use that so I do not know
> any further.  

I increased so-sndbuf to as far as 12m but the issue persists.

> Where you could look further is in the sendto(2) system
> call documentation, for UDP packets, when it gives this ENOBUFS error
> code.  The FreeBSD documentation suggest two causes for this error code,
> one it that there was not enough memory for a buffer

is this exclusively about so-sndbuf or potentially also about other buffers?

>, and the second
> that the network interface has stopped sending and it is full.

since both cases have the same error message (ENOBUFS) I guess
there is no way to tell these cases apart, right?




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