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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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On Mon, 26 Jun 1995, John Capo wrote:

> I agree with Tom here.  But, it seems to me that there is an
> underlying problem of some sort.  Why do I have to allow for 4Megs
> of mbuf clusters to service some unknown transient event.  Once
> this memory is in the mbuf map, its there forever.

  Running out mbufs doesn't kill your system.  It just means that you 
drop a few packets.  Only if it happens continuously is it a problem

Tom