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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA: Running out of mbufs.
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> > > If you run out of mbufs in 2.2-ALPHA, it seems to destablize the system.  
> > > Running out is usually folowed by a spontanious reboot.  Setting the 
> > > mbufs very high in the kernel config seems to fix the problem, but I 
> > > thought this problem was fixed a while back?
> > 
> > This seems to be the same problem I'm seeing with my laptop.
> 
> You can generate enough network load to do this on your laptop?  That's 
> pretty impressive :-)

All I'm doing is a CVS update over the network.  It runs fine on my
-stable disk w/out any problems.  The load is pretty minimal, and *all*
my other machines (running either -stable or older -current) handle much
higher loads w/out problems.


Nate