Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      	Mon, 26 Jun 1995 19:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: mb_map full with GATEWAY and maxusers 64!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950626190027.582M-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506261935.PAA12035@irbs.irbs.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.950626190027.582M-100000>