# BUFFER-LIMIT for Service reached

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/buffer-limit-for-service-reached/59098>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Mainframe-Integration, EntireX\
**Created:** [February 16, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/buffer-limit-for-service-reached/59098 "2005-02-16T23:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lizette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecae2f/32.png) [@Lizette](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Lizette)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/buffer-limit-for-service-reached/59098/1 "2005-02-16T23:08:01Z")

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I get the following error when I do multiple calls to EntireX with no delay between the calls:  
00370042 ATTR: BUFFER-LIMIT for Service reached  
We’ve already increased the size of NUM-LONG-BUFFER to 3000, NUM-CONVERSATION to 5000 but we still get this error.  
This is what we currently have:  
CONV-DEFAULT = 1000  
LONG-BUFFER-DEFAULT = 20  
NUM-CLIENT = 100  
NUM-CONVERSATION = 5000  
NUM-LONG-BUFFER = 3000  
NUM-SERVER = 30  
NUM-SERVICE = 15  
NUM-SHORT-BUFFER = 5000  
NUM-WORKER = 2  
SECURITY = NO   
SERVICE-UPDATES = YES   
SHORT-BUFFER-DEFAULT = 1000   
TRACE-LEVEL = 0   
NUM-CCOM = 3   
NUM-COMBUF = 100   
Of course if I add an empty for loop (e.g. for i = 1 to 100000 next) between my calls it works, but that slows the whole process down.  
Is there anything else we can do or change to prevent this error.  
  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/buffer-limit-for-service-reached/59098/2 "2005-02-17T21:12:46Z")

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- What are the settings for the service (DEFAULTS SERVICE section)? Is the service using long buffers or short buffers (message less than 2048 bytes)?   
- are the multiple calls part of a conversation or are they all non-conversational calls? Are they synchronous (send with a wait) or asynchronous calls?  
- Check the highwater marks in the SMH and monitor the number of buffers used by the service.  
  
Douglas Kelly,  
Principal Consultant  
Software AG, Inc

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/buffer-limit-for-service-reached/59098/3 "2021-04-02T14:39:39Z")

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