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Date:      Mon, 06 May 1996 12:52:43 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>, Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MBUFs leaking? 
Message-ID:  <199605061952.MAA07234@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 1996 09:52:02 CDT." <Pine.BSI.3.93.960506094854.13225C-100000@sasami> 

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>On Tue, 7 May 1996, michael butler wrote:
>> I always thought that whilst there is a definable upper bound on how many
>> clusters might be created, the memory actually used for data was dynamically
>> allocated (and freed),
>
>Indeed.  This seems to be the case.  I'm not sure why I was getting 
>'unable to allocate' errors on the console, but I'm not getting them
>anymore and as a test, I added about um... 1500 IP aliases just
>to see what would happen (nothing really).  The mbuf clusters increased
>and I got no errors, so all is working correctly.  I was a little
>worried when I saw the % used approaching 100 and jumped to conclusions
>about low mbufs and the allocation errors I got.
>
>LART me, and have a good one.

   Are you refering to the "arpresolve: an't allocate llinfo..." messages?
This has nothing to do with mbufs or mbuf clusters. It has to do with a
failure to allocate an ARP entry in the routing table.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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