> >Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 23:29:42 +0000
> >From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
> >
> >> I got a kernel message "Jan 9 09:39:47 colwyn /netbsd: mb_map
> >> full" this morning. What does it mean? I never saw it before.
>
> mbufs are dynamically allocated; what you're running out of is slots
> in the VM map that is used to allocate memory for them.  The effect
> is the same.
>
> I get this message a lot, but everything still seems to work OK.
> Running out of mbufs probably impacts performance, but I've never
> bothered to check.

If you're not careful and not stress your machine even more, the next
thing you could see would be "kmem_malloc: mb_map too small", and that
would be the last breath from your running kernel (i.e. it's a panic).

- H=E5vard