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From: shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: "Out of buffer" problems
Date: 03 Oct 1996 11:58:44 -0400
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
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I am having a problem with my FreeBSD system. Every now and then, I seem
to blow out some kernel buffer pool. One sure way to do this is to display
Java animations in my Netscape browser. Suddenly, I drop off the net --
DNS lookups fail with "out of buffer space" error messages.

Can anyone shed some light on this, and how to avoid it?
	-Olin