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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Stefan Bethke wrote:

...
> As a relief you can try to increase the number of mbufs; however, this will
> only make the case less likely to occur.
...

  Actually, if you limit the number of processes per user, you can almost
completely prevent it from happening (at least for regular users anyhow).

Tom


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