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Subject: Re: mbuf clusters problem in 2.2.1R
In-Reply-To: <199704141518.RAA06336@curry.mchp.siemens.de> from "Andre Albsmeier" at "Apr 14, 97 05:18:09 pm"
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From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
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> > we use p6-200 with two 3940UW and fxp (100baseT fullduplex) 256M RAM
> > under fbsd 2.2.1R
> Apr 11 13:07:28 server kern.err /kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers!
> >From time to time the machine reboots without any other messages or
> console errors. This only appears on a machine with 3 network cards

To try to make situation be a bit more clear:
We don't have nfs/nfsd at all, so that shouldn't be the culprit. Our box is
definetely highly loaded, and imvho, it is being caused by the situation, when
mbuf clusters are not released after were used once.

> 	-Andre

-mishania