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** Reply to note from freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 25 Jul 2003 14:17:40 -0400

>> The problem has started to show after an upgrade to 4.6 or 4.7 I believe (but I cannot recall exactly).
>> I might as well try an upgrade to 4.8, but I'd rather have more insight.
  
>It's more work to try to track the problem if you're using different
>code than (for example, I am on my) system, so upgrading is a help to
>the person trying to track it.

I understand, but upgrading this machine has a cost and I must be absolutely sure this will not introduce new problems
as previous upgrades did.



>I don't have enough time to go into this in depth, but see if the
>problem is affected by increasing the number of mbufs.

Nice suggestion, how do I do that?

 bye & Thanks
        av.