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To: Rob Secombe <robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au>
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Subject: Re: mb_map full 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:03:08 -0700
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>Every 'once in a blue moon' ( 3-6 months) one of our servers crashes with
>the following error:
>
>Sep 23 02:24:26 wizard kernel: mb_map full
>
>Before anyone says anything, I know I need to upgrade this machine to 2.1.5.
>However, aside from this problem it runs flawlessly and the upgrade is
>planned for next month. It is currently running FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE GENERIC
>kernel.

   You can work around this by adding options "NMBCLUSTERS=<n>" to your kernel
config file - where <n> is a number like 4000 or so.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project