On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 16:51:42 -0500 (CDT) 
 "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net> wrote:

 > Jun 16 16:44:54 jupiter /netbsd: mb_map full
 > 
 > this is running -current as of a few days ago.

What was the machine doing?  This can happen on busy servers with the
default value...

try setting:

options NMBCLUSTERS=xxx

...where xxx is ome number... by default, on i386, it's 256 (or 512 with
GATEWAY) ... I use 4096 on one of my busiest servers (a P6 with 128M of
RAM).

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