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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:13:20 -0200 (BRDT)
From:      Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: qmail IO problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102061112060.1535-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <200102060231.f162VL557466@earth.backplane.com>

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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:

> :file: table is full

> :looutput: mbuf allocation failed
> :nfs server 172.16.0.101:/bravenet1/home: is alive again

>     This sheds a considerable amount of light on the problems...
>     methinks you may have a low 'maxusers' setting in the kernel
>     config.  Read on.

Linux had problems with errors like this too, with
kernel 2.0 and 2.2 when used under heavy load.

In kernel 2.4 this has been solved by simply having
the kernel allocate (and free) these structures on
demand ... would that be an idea for FreeBSD ?

Rik
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