All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today

Pawel Malachowski pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl
Sun Jan 11 15:16:53 PST 2004


On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:49:07PM -0600, Chris Byrnes wrote:

> 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?

Latest STABLE? Interesting. I had similar problem in the past, but this
was fixed. Please obtain a crashdump and show backtrace.

(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#KERNELDEBUG-OBTAIN)


-- 
Paweł Małachowski


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