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From: "Bruce Fleming" <bfleming@bserv.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: How to fix 'Cannot alloc MBUF' or similar message
Date: 20 Dec 1996 03:48:22 GMT
Organization: Allied Research Technologies
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I am getting a frequent (once every 1 or two days) message similar
to 'Cannot alloc MBUF' message and the system freezes. Can anyone
point me in the right direction.

One thought is that there are many small requests (DNS) being sent to
this machine. Maybe overloading something?

Thanks.