[comp.sys.dec] cant get mbufs

john@accord.cc.iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul) (01/11/91)

We have a machine which frequently hangs with "cant get mbufs"
splattered all over the console.  I am way out of my league
here, any clues or pointers will be much appreciated.  The machine
is a DECstation 5000/200CX with 24 MB memory, 8 RZ57s and a TLZ08.

Here is a vmstat, for what it's worth (I note that the Total
Allocated number just keeps growing, it was ~ 800 KB right
after booting, is there some upper limit?)

Many thanks,
John Hascall     john@iastate.edu
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john@fs-1> vmstat -K
            :
            :
Total Allocated = 2000 KB; Total Free = 617 KB
Memory Usage: Type and Number
      MBUF   477    DEVBUF     1       PCB    88    ZOMBIE     1 
      TEMP    10     MOUNT    10       NFS   358      CRED     5
       RPC  2124      RMAP     1    SOCKET    59    RTABLE     4
    IFADDR     2    SONAME     1   CLUSTER   173   X_DADDR    25
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