Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:31:40 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: mb_map full with GATEWAY and maxusers 64! Message-ID: <199506270331.UAA17759@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 95 19:02:44 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950626190027.582M-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
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> >On Mon, 26 Jun 1995, John Capo wrote: > >> I agree with Tom here. But, it seems to me that there is an >> underlying problem of some sort. Why do I have to allow for 4Megs >> of mbuf clusters to service some unknown transient event. Once >> this memory is in the mbuf map, its there forever. > > Running out mbufs doesn't kill your system. It just means that you >drop a few packets. Only if it happens continuously is it a problem Prior to 2.0.5R, it did kill the system. -DG
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