XNTPD

[Gabriel_23]

My system keeps giving me the following message:

"xntpd[3521]: too many recvbufs allocated (30)"

Is there a solution out there to prevent my system from producing this message?

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

When there are no more receive (recv) buffers available, you will get these messages. I would check your network settings, NTP configuration etc. Are running a NTP server? Do you have lot of NTP cleints configured ?

The system keeps getting too many packets at the same time. Apply patches if required.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

Not sure what the error msg means, but have you tried bouncing NTP
/sbin/init.d/xntpd stop
Then
ps -ef | grep ntp
to see if there are multiple xntpd copies running - If so kill them
Then
/sbin/init.d/xntpd start

If that doesn't stop them then look at the latest NTP patch - PHNE_27223

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHNE_27223&context=hpux:800:11:00

NOTE THE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS.....
In fact this could be related to the instrs as this patch when installed with kernel patches caused NTP to not start properly at next boot. A restart of NTP solved the problem.

HTH,
Jeff

[Gabriel_23]

Thanks for the information. I see that my ntp patch is outdated... so this may be the cause.