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To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
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Subject: Re: kern/435: mb_map full, network starts jumping off and on, finally stays down 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 01:36:00 -0700
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>	P90 as news server plus various other jobs.
...
>May 23 00:00:32 katiska /kernel: mb_map full
>
>And network interface starts dropping packets.  Occasionally a packet
>or two gets through, as sometimes nfs says is alive again, and even a
>login gets though.  A couple of hours later the connections die
>completely.

   How many simultaneous TCP connections does the machine typically have, and
how many mbuf clusters do you have configured in the kernel?

-DG