No buffer space available

[Amit Parui]

Hi All,

Can anybody help me out in finding out the problem in the below error -

inetd[769]: registrar/tcp: accept: No buffer space available

And how to sort out the problem if any?

[AwadheshPandey]

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=894793&admit=-682735245+1190358067924+28353475

[whiteknight · Accepted solution]

Amit,

Do you receive this error message often ?

this error can be returned under the following scenario:

1) A client makes a new TCP connection to the server (TCP SYN/SYN
ACK/ACK)
2) The new connection is queued on the servers LISTEN socket
3) Client sends a TCP reset (RST) on the connection
4) Server calls accept(2)

[ENOBUFS] No buffer space is available. The accept()cannotcomplete. The queued socket connect request is aborted.

WK
please assign points

[Amit Parui]

Hi whiteknight,

I've come across this error for the first time, also one more thing, I'm unable to login to the server now..Is it because of this??

[whiteknight]

Amit,

you say you cannot login into the server, are you refering, you cannot telnet to the server ?

or Application unable to login ?

WK

[Amit Parui]

Hi whiteknight,

Actually i'm trying to go through Putty, also the other attached servers are giving some NFS-gettattr failed, NFS-lookup failed, NFS-read failed errors.. Wht r those for?

[whiteknight]

Amit,

it seems NFS server not responding, that's why you got this errors.


WK

[Amit Parui]

Hi All,
Thanks for all your support, seems like someone has rebooted the system. All is fine now.

[rick jones]

keep in mind that ENOBUFS on accept() is a transient thing, the listen endpoint is still good. any software treating it as a fatal error is buggy and should be updated.