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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel Error - is there a fix?
Date: 21 Feb 1997 13:20:19 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <330CDB97.C07@bluetongue.com>,
Andrew Heath  <drew@bluetongue.com> wrote:
> I have just come across an error which produces the following message in
> my Log file:
> 	Feb 21 09:51:06 skink /kernel: mb_map full
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 2.0.5 (I know it's VERY old, but I haven't had many
> probs)

The system ran out of mbufs. You can increase mbuf space by using

options "NMBCLUSTERS=1024"

in your kernel configuration file.
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Ollivier ROBERT   -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TS -=-   Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
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