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Subject: Re: mbuf clusters exhausted w/o reaching max?
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:05:35PM -0700, Steve Francis wrote:
> 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

  My advice is to ignore it unless it keeps reoccuring.

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