All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 11 January 2004 02:49 pm, Chris Byrnes wrote:
> Sorry for the crosspost, not sure where this should go.  Please cc me in
> replies because I am not subscribed.
>
> Server was up almost 134 days and spontaneously rebooted this morning
> saying "All mbufs exhausted, please see tuning(7)."  Had never seen it
> before, read up on it and figured something just happened causing a lot of
> memory usage or something, chalked it up to an abnormality.
>
> Took the opportunity to upgrade to the latest -STABLE and rebooted.
>
> Server was up for 30 minutes and just rebooted AGAIN with the same
> message(s)..
>
> Jan 11 16:32:19 /kernel: All mbufs exhausted, please see tuning(7).
> Jan 11 16:32:50 last message repeated 33 times
> Jan 11 16:34:44 last message repeated 127 times
>
> Do you have any idea what's causing this and how I can monitor/stop it?
>

Could you have missed a security update and some one found your hole?

Kent

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