Hi,

I am new to the group, appreciate if you could answer a couple of queries I
have

Recently in one of my setups, I got this message continuously.

too many recvbufs allocated (40) - ntpd

I checked the code(ntp-4.2.0a) and found that ntpd has 40 recv buffers
allocated for the recv packets.

My questions:

1. What situation causes such syslogs to pop-up ?

2. Is it safe to increase the RECV_TOMANY to a larger value ?


Thanks
Kiran

kiran.shirol@gmail.com (Kiran Shirol) writes:

>Hi,

>I am new to the group, appreciate if you could answer a couple of queries I
>have

>Recently in one of my setups, I got this message continuously.

>too many recvbufs allocated (40) - ntpd

>I checked the code(ntp-4.2.0a) and found that ntpd has 40 recv buffers
>allocated for the recv packets.

>My questions:

>1. What situation causes such syslogs to pop-up ?

>2. Is it safe to increase the RECV_TOMANY to a larger value ?

How many servers do you have? What are your minpoll and maxpoll values for
those servers? Are you actually getting through to those servers ( what is
the output of ntpq -p).



>Thanks
>Kiran

>>> In article <fd2a79190806080347t3fecd0e5kde4e0bb0aaa6529@mail.gmail.com>, kiran.shirol@gmail.com (Kiran Shirol) writes:

Kiran> Recently in one of my setups, I got this message continuously.

Kiran> too many recvbufs allocated (40) - ntpd

Kiran> I checked the code(ntp-4.2.0a) and found that ntpd has 40 recv
Kiran> buffers allocated for the recv packets.

I recall a bug like this being fixed a while ago.

4.2.0 is pretty old.  The latest stable release is 4.2.4, and we are pretty
close to releasing ntp-dev as 4.2.6.

I recommend you upgrade your ntp software.

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