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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:05:39 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Gustavo Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: system error
Message-ID:  <385A8983.6E82CAD7@3-cities.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912171631110.4446-100000@vitoria.ddsecurity.com.br>

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Gustavo Rios wrote:
> 
> Dear users,
> 
> i am running a shell server, and today i got the following message in my
> console:
> 
> Out of mbuf clusters - adjust NMBCLUSTERS or increase maxusers!
> 
> I would like to know what can cause such a problem, and what are the
> solutions!
> 
> Better yet, don't tell me what is the problem, but point me some good
> source of information about this kernel options (since i  could not read
> any thing related to NMBCLUSTERS in LINT kernel config FILE).

Search the archive. There have been several threads on -questions on
this in recent months. The last numbers I remember was setting
MAXUSERS=256 and NMBCLUSTERS=16384. This ultimate choice depends on
how much memory you want to allocate and how much you need allocated
to solve your problem.

Kent

> 
> Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
> 
> PS: my system is:
> FreeBSD vitoria.ddsecurity.com.br 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #9:
>  Fri Nov 26 23:06:26 EDT 1999
> toor@vitoria.ddsecurity.com.br:/usr/src/sys/compile/VITORIA  i386
> 
> --
> The thing i like most about Windows is ....
> You can download FreeBSD with it!
> 
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