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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
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Subject: Re: mb_map full error
To: rob@global-image.com (Rob Cima)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 16:13:30 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199512102345.RAA04492@www> from "Rob Cima" at Dec 10, 95 05:45:53 pm
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> My FreeBSD server recently went down with a mb_map full error. It is working
> fine again after a reboot.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on what that error means? Looking at the source,
> it appears to come from /sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c. My (probably ignorant) guess
> is that the message indicates I was unable to allocate any more pages if
> virtual memory.

This happened to me once as well... nothing particularly special
that I remember was going on at the time and it most likely wasn't
out of swap. Hmm.

Could it be another manifestation of the kernel page fault panic?

-Archie

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