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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:17:33 +0100
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Peter Bozarov <peter.bozarov@moniforce.com>
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Subject: Re: Recovery from mbuf cluster exhaustion
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:10:47PM +0200, Peter Bozarov wrote:
> (First off, I hope I'm posting to the right list.)

-net would be more appropriate. [Redirected from -hackers]

> I have the following question regarding mbuf cluster exhaustion.
> If I've managed to exhaust the pool, I start getting the usual
> "All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7)." message.
> Now, at that point this is what my mbuf pool looked like:

Which version of FreeBSD are you using?
What network interfaces do you have?
What does this box do to get to this stage?
What does your routing table look like?

BMS