From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 07:46:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:46:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16803 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18603; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:45:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <3576B321.DCCF5B02@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 15:45:53 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Sandiford CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of mbuf clusters References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Sandiford wrote: > > I am running a FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE system on a Pentium Pro machine. The > machine is primarily used as a proxy server for our ISP (we are using > squid) > > I keep getting the following message after which the system automatically > shuts down and reboots > > /kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers! > > Obviously I need to increase maxusers, however I do not know how to do > this. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be much > appreciated. > > Thanks Try: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook37.html#39 You basically need to edit your kernels config file, and change the line that says "MAX_USERS" to a higher value, e.g. 256. Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message