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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Error Mesg in FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP
Date: 15 Jun 1996 17:28:49 GMT
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aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote:

> FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP has been working fine for me.
> I do however keep getting an error message :
> 
> /kernel: in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 1066
> /kernel: in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 710
> 
> I dont even know what this means.  Anybody has any
> ideas ?

It's not an error message, it's an informational message.

It means your system accumulated too many clone routes within short
time, and thus finally dropped the timeout in order to not waste too
much space in keeping them around.

Clone routes are network routes that have been applied to a particular
destination host to make routing more efficient.  If they live for too
short, your routing will be slower.  710 seconds doesn't look too
short to me however.

You can see them with ``netstat -r -a'' btw.
                                   ^^
-- 
cheers, J"org

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