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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:43:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2-ALPHA: Running out of mbufs.
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.961122004157.3263A-100000@mickey.umiacs.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199611220511.WAA14618@rocky.mt.sri.com>

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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Nate Williams wrote:

> > If you run out of mbufs in 2.2-ALPHA, it seems to destablize the system.  
> > Running out is usually folowed by a spontanious reboot.  Setting the 
> > mbufs very high in the kernel config seems to fix the problem, but I 
> > thought this problem was fixed a while back?
> 
> This seems to be the same problem I'm seeing with my laptop.

You can generate enough network load to do this on your laptop?  That's 
pretty impressive :-)

Has anyone else seen this?  I suspect that anyone running enough load to 
do this will already have set the # of mbufs up pretty high.


Sujal



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