Netlink: File exists

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Wed Feb 3 00:37:12 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:03:57PM +0000, Chris Webb wrote:
> > > Also, I needed 
> > > 
> > >   sysctl net.core.rmem_max=524284
> > > 
> > > before starting quagga to avoid netlink "recvmsg overrun" messages and
> > > occasional loss of prefixes. Am I right in assuming that bird will need the
> > > same thing for the same reason?
> > 
> > I don't know about such requirement.
> 
> In the same debug output, I'm seeing
> 
>   [...]
>   ??? <<80 messages lost>>
>   >>> bgp1: Got UPDATE
>   [...]
>   ??? <<198 messages lost>>
>   [...]
> 
> I suspected that this might be prefixes being lost because bird isn't
> increasing the size of the netlink buffer sufficiently and there's an
> overflow.

No, this is message is related to BIRD debug messages lost and it is unrelated
to the netlink socket.

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