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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Scanner SOD <scanner@webspan.net>
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, Scanner SOD wrote:

> 
> flame me off the list for not paying attention i wasnt really concerned 
> about mbufs till i saw while watching their status that they got up to 
> 90% used. What happens if mbufs get 100% used does the machine die? 
> services get refused?

  No.  If usage goes to a 100% more clusters are allocated.  If there is 
no more kernel space for more clusters, you will get a "mb_map full" 
log message, and some traffic will be lost.

Tom