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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Can anyone suggest a cure?? Date: 18 Mar 1997 16:49:26 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5gmh2m$8od$3@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <5gmb0r$452$2@info.cs.uofs.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: antifer.ipv6.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5665 Bill Gunshannon (bill@cs.uofs.edu) wrote: > I have just started running NetBSD on a P5-120 and so far the performance > seems impressive. However, I do seem to have one small problem. > > I am getting repeated (very frequently) the following error message: > /netbsd: mb_map full > > [...] > > Can anyone tell me what it means and more importantly what to do about > it as I can't believe it is a good thing. > This means that you are running out of mbufs (buffers used by the kernel to store network packets), so you are loosing pakets. To solve this, recompile a kernel with options NMBCLUSTERS=1024 in its config file. -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --