PCI card for wlan AP

[Boris Kochergin]

Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2009, at 20:04, Boris Kochergin wrote:
>>
>> The heavily-used ones exhibit the problem described at:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-September/022894.html 
>>
>>
>> ...but that's a driver, not a hardware, issue. The one in the router 
>> at my house doesn't exhibit the problem, the two differences there 
>> being that the machine is 7.0-RELEASE, and there are only a couple of 
>> clients connected to it, as opposed to the ~30 connected to my 
>> heavily-used ones.
>
> Are you sure you have sufficient RAM to hold 30 users?
>
> What you seem to be saying is that the ath driver is leaking mbufs and 
> hence you get a panic, right?
>
> -- 
> Rui Paulo
>
>
>
Pretty sure. The Soekris has 256 MB of RAM. I suspect that it's a leak 
because things are usually great, even with ~30 users, with the 
"80211node" portion from "vmstat -m" only taking a few hundred KiB of 
RAM. Every few days, it spikes to over 100 MiB, and the "ath0: 
ath_rx_proc: no mbuf!" kernel messages appear, often followed by a 
panic. I haven't had time to try another rate-control algorithm, as per 
the responses to my post, but I'll report back when I do get around to it.

-Boris