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To: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
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Subject: Re: Help 'no buffer available'!! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:52:28 CST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 18:18:47 -0800
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>My kernel details"
>
>options     "CHILD_MAX=512"
>options     "OPEN_MAX=1024"
>options     "MAXMEM=262144"
>options     "NMBCLUSTERS=4096"
>options     "EXTRAVNODES=30000"   <----- this is not a real option on
>2.1.6
>options     "NBUF=4096"

   I don't know off hand what is causing your problem, but you definately
don't want NBUF=4096. There is no reason for it and it will consume a
tremendous amount of virtual memory in 2.1.x.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project