SUMMARY: Kernel message buffer (mbufs) problem

From: Martin Lichtin (lichtin@olsen.ch)
Date: Tue Oct 27 1992 - 11:34:24 CST


Thanks to all who responded. The solution is to apply either patch
100126-05, 100330-05 or 100456-03, depending on your situation. I
forgot to mention that we're running SunOS 4.1.1.

My original question was:

>We are experiencing severe problems with a loaded machine where a lot
>of processes are in a strange state (WCHAN = 'mfree') and hang. Can
...
>I'm wondering, how the 'mbuf map full' problem can be fixed. Of
>course, a solution would be to not run that many traffic-producing
>processes. But, I would rather increase a value in the kernel to
>overcome this problem. Thanks for any help.

Thanks to

jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
fmc@key.amdahl.com (Frederick Curiel)
peter@key.amdahl.com (Peter Sivo)
dvsc-a@minster.york.ac.uk (Dave Stringer-Calvert)
steve@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Steven Salvini)



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