From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 11 19:51:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA18994 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:51:23 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA18987 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:51:11 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id TAA27408; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:51:01 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id TAA00305; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:51:01 -0800 Message-Id: <199501120351.TAA00305@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Matt Midboe cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mp_map full locks my machine? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jan 95 16:56:53 CST." <199501112256.QAA21234@vespucci.iquest.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:50:58 -0800 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >What does mb_map full mean in my messages file? It locks up the >machine when it does this. So far it's happened twice over the course >of about 1.5 months. It seems to happen after about 14 days of uptime >if that helps. Could someone at least explain what the error message >means? What version of FreeBSD are you using, and what type of ethernet card? The mb_map is the kernel virtual address space reserved for network buffers. It sounds like you are losing mbufs until the map fills up. -DG