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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Out of buffer" problems
Date: 4 Oct 1996 01:17:03 GMT
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In article <qijenjgqbt7.fsf@lambda.ai.mit.edu>,
	shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers) writes:
> 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.

What version of FreeBSD are you using, and what interface ?

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....