btlan4 error messages

[Nicole Wafford]

When I execute the dmesg command, I receive the following errors:

fill fail rdr_empty_cnt is 40 8/8/1/0....
btlan4: WARNING: refill fail rdr_empty_cnt is 40 8/8/1/0....
btlan4: WARNING: refill fail rdr_empty_cnt is 11 8/8/1/0....
btlan4: WARNING: refill fail rdr_empty_cnt is 12 8/8/1/0....
btlan4: WARNING: refill fail rdr_empty_cnt is 3f 8/8/1/0....

Can someone tell how to resolve these error messages? The server is 11.0.

[Ron Kinner · Accepted solution]

Do you have the latest patches? These came up when I searched for btlan4 at:

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/search.do

s700_800 11.00 cumulative ARPA Transport patch PHNE_21767
created: 2000/05/30
notes: PHNE_29473
created: 2004/01/02
notes:
s700_800 11.00 HSC 100BT lan cumulative patch PHNE_25579
created: 2001/11/28
notes: PHNE_30301
created: 2004/03/22
notes:

Ron

[Steven E. Protter]

General recommendation:

Keep up with patches.

Download the quartery release and install it onto your system.

Run a patch assessment and see what else you are missing:
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/assessSystemsPage.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|

Follow the recommendations in post 1 if you do not already have them installed.

To check:

swlist -l product | grep -i PHNE_30301

replace the patch number with the ones in the post. If its installed, you are cool, if not, you may wish to download and install.

SEP

[rick jones]

Apart from the patches mentioned, on the surface, those messages would suggest that some number of times, the btlan4 driver, operating for the card at hardware path 8/8/1/0 was unable to allocate mblks (buffers) to post to the NIC to replace buffers the NIC had filled with inbound packets.

If indeed the driver was unable to allocate mblks, it suggests a paucity of available memory, or perhaps some very fragmented address space on the system.

[Nicole Wafford]

Thanks. Your suggestions appear to have solved my problem.

[Nicole Wafford]

These suggestions appear to have resolved my issue.