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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:29:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: MBUFs ...
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> According to netstat -m, my configuration is as such:
> 
> 840/1032/1024 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
> 
> Peak is 8 clusters over max...how is that possible?  And what does that
> affect?

Network traffic.  Normally, the kernel panics when you run out of mbufs.

Solution:  increase maxusers.

Doug White                               
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