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From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
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Subject: high number of pcb's, core dump in sysctl -a
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net.inet.tcp.pcbcount: 76043

when i do 'sysctl net.inet.tcp', i get a core dump,
while trying to read 'net.inet.tcp.pcblist'. 

Is there some built in limit to the size of a sysctl
result?

--don