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> As i suspected, you have a quite small number of mbuf clusters
> in the system. I am unsure on how much memory you have and how
> your box is used, but mbufs are used quite a bit in the system.

128mb
heavy net use: apache/ssl servers, 100k/day email service, ...

> If you have 4.5 and enough memory one option is to use
> MAXUSERS=0 and remove and "options NMBCLUSTERS"

that's how it is now.

before the latest builds, it uses to be MAXUSERS=96.  maybe i should
revert that.

and i have to open the box sometime soon, so i'll shove a bunch of
ram in it.

randy

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