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Subject: Re: All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today
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Pawel Malachowski wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:15:15PM -0200, Einstein Oliveira wrote:
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>>You can modify the number of mbufs with sysctl variable 
>>kern.ipc.nmbclusters.
> 
> 
> This will hide a problem, without fixing it.
> 
> 

You're right, but it also can keep the things running while you figure 
out what's happenning (load/DoS/etc).


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