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Subject: Re: mbuf clusters exhausted w/o reaching max?
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Bosko Milekic wrote:

> Actually, he's not running out of address space here; he's probably
>
>  run out of free pages and could not block to wait for them.
>
>  
>
So is there anything to tune, I guess in the VM subsystem, to prevent 
this recurring?

Or is the advice still ignore it, as its only 50 denied requests?

We are planning on scaling up the memory requirements of the processes 
we run in the near future, so I would like to know when I need to start 
tuning, and how I would do so, if possible.

Thanks much