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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Subject: Re: kern/4609: Heavy HTTP load causes "out of memory buffers" and crash
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The following reply was made to PR kern/4609; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: btman@lionking.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/4609: Heavy HTTP load causes "out of memory buffers" and crash
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 23:20:26 -0600 (MDT)

 > >Number:         4609
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       Heavy HTTP load causes "out of memory buffers" and crash
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 22 19:30:01 PDT 1997
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Brian Tiemann
 > >Organization:
 > Packeteer
 > >Release:        2.2.2-RELEASE
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD freebsd1.packeteer.com 2.2.2-RELEASE
 > FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 11 21:35:29 PDT 1997
 > (GENERIC kernel)
 > httpd: Apache/1.2.4 (standard dist. config)
 > P/MMX-166, Intel HX chipset, 64MB RAM, Matrox Millennium, WD 2.1GB IDE HD,
 > 8x Mitsumi ATAPI CD-ROM, PS/2 mouse, 3com 3C905revA NIC
 > >Description:
 > On extremely high (i.e. testing/benchmarking) loads of HTTP traffic,
 > the system will crash with errors of "Out of memory buffers".
 
 Does it crash the system, or just the server?
 
 
 Nate