From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 10:14:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11761 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-26.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA11752 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) id QAA22945; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:21:02 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:21:02 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199610071521.QAA22945@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers! From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available X-Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Phone: +49.89.268616 X-Fax: +49.89.2608126 X-Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Could a kernel guru perhaps extend the console message in /sys/vm/vm_kern.c: 319 ? /kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers! to be a little more informative ? Maybe to something like: /kernel: Performance Warning: Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers ! Or /kernel: Process Aborted: Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers ! Even when one looks in src/ to see if this message is merely a warning or an error, it's not immediately obvious, & not all FreeBSD systems have /usr/src/sys on line, so leaving sys admins with a suspicion something may have broken or aborted somewhere, but no certainty. Julian --- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/