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To: Chris Fanning <cfanning@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu>
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Subject: Re: sudden MBUF problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 May 1998 10:26:08 -0000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 08:28:44 -0700
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>I'm guessing something's going on where I'm getting a crazy amount of mbufs
>being allocated to data for no good reason.

   Probably to new connections. I'd recommend looking at "netstat -n", and
"netstat -s".

>Could I be the victim of some degenerative TCP/IP attack?

   Probably. Or some local application that is going crazy.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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