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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 03:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: kern/4609: Heavy HTTP load causes "out of memory buffers" and crash
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>  Does it crash the system, or just the server?

My guess is the server/system just wedged from a lack of mbufs.
At least it sounds like mbufs to me, but as i recall when this happened to
me I did not get an "out of memory buffers" message.
Could be wrong.
He should try increasing NMBCLUSTERS and see if that helps.


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