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To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: MB_TABLE FULL 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:57:15 -0800
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>Anyone know what that means and what one can do about it?
>
>One of my servers' NFS stopped and this was on the screen.  When I went to
>shut down it wasnt able to perform the sync on the way down - it timed
>out.
>
>Any ideas?

   Could that be "mb_map full"? This seems to indicate that you need to
increase the nummber of mbuf clusters. This can be done either by increasing
"maxusers" in the kernel config file or adding options "NMBCLUSTERS=<n>" where
<n> is a number between 1000-4000.

-DG

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