socketpair: No buffer space available

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> I've checked nmbclusters between the two machines, and both are at 25600, 
> but not sure what sysctl to look at for how much is actually used out of 
> that 25600 ...

netstat -mb

nmbclusters directly affects the number of clusters available in the network 
stack; it also indirectly affects the scaling of other settings, such as 
resource limits on the number of sockets.  vmstat -z is also generally useful.

There are a few paths to ENOBUFS in the socket allocation code--one path is if 
you are over-committed on socket buffer resources with respect to the resource 
limits of the user.  Check the output of limits and the socket buffer size 
limit.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge