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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:31:40 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        John Capo <jc@irbs.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: mb_map full with GATEWAY and maxusers 64! 
Message-ID:  <199506270331.UAA17759@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 95 19:02:44 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950626190027.582M-100000@haven.uniserve.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

   Prior to 2.0.5R, it did kill the system.

-DG



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