The following reply was made to PR kern/32287; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32287: Processes hang in "mclpl"
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:33:59 +0100

 YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > >  >  it runs out of mb_map.  so increasing NMBCLUSTERS can be a workaround.
 > >  >  (the famous "increase NMBCLUSTERS" message didn't appear due to a bug.)
 
 > >  After reading PR 31275 I decided to bump kern.somaxkva from 2^24
 > >  to 2^26. This seems to be another workaround.
 
 > kern.somaxkva is about kva from kernel_map.
 > it isn't directly related to mb_map.
 
 Ok, that explains why the problem re-appeared anyway a little later.
 I'll retry with NMBCLUSTERS=4096 for now.
 
 -- 
 Christian