Subject: Re: mb_map full
To: C Kane <ckane@best.com>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 10/06/1997 19:23:36
On Oct 6, C Kane wrote
> Hello.
> 
> I have NetBSD-i386/1.2G and it is giving me these errors from time to time:
> 
> Oct  3 00:43:26 smdls1 /netbsd: mb_map full
> Oct  3 01:43:26 smdls1 /netbsd: mb_map full
> Oct  3 02:58:26 smdls1 /netbsd: mb_map full
> Oct  3 03:43:25 smdls1 /netbsd: mb_map full
> Oct  3 04:43:24 smdls1 /netbsd: mb_map full
> Oct  3 04:58:25 smdls1 /netbsd: mb_map full
> Oct  3 05:43:23 smdls1 /netbsd: mb_map full
> 
> What is an mb_map, should I be concerned that it is full, and how is
> the situation corrected?

You run out of mb_map (that is, out of mbuf) so your host is dropping
some network packets. You should not feel concerned if you're not concerned
with network performances and this occur ocasionally.
You can find in the options(4) man page a way to incrase the number
of mb map entrys in your kernel.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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