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To: "John Booth" <JOHN@gab.unt.edu>
cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: mb_map full, intermittent net. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 95 16:02:35 CST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 17:12:07 -0700
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>1.
>I've been getting a mb_map full error on console & messages log.
>Why would the table be running out while there is still swap space?
>Is there something I can change to add more table space?  Should this 
>ever happen?
>
>
>2.
>After being on the net for several hours (6 or more usually) the net 
>will go down.  

   The two problems are related. Add the following to your kernel config file
and let me know if the problem goes away:

options "NMBCLUSTERS=1024"

-DG