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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jason McKay <jasmack2@altavista.com>
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Subject: Re: System Reboots 
In-reply-to: Your message of "08 Nov 1999 22:50:28 PST."
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On 08 Nov 1999 22:50:28 PST, Jason McKay wrote:

> I have maxusers set to 512 and NMBCLUSTERS=10240. It doesn't appear to
> be a hardware fault, I have replaced the computer, Stallion and hard
> disk to see if it resolves the problem (it didn't).
>
> Can anyone please suggest some other things I can try to fix this?

Hi Jason,

I'm not speaking from experience here, I'm only regurgitating what I've
seen someone else suggest before.

Try lowering (or removing altogether) the NMBCLUSTERS option and
watching actual mbuf usage with ``netstat -m'' to ensure that you really
need that many mbufs.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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