In message <200005281248.e4SCmo102063@thunk.hamachi.org> Bill Sommerfeld writes:
: Several folks have expressed doubt that a reasonable fix is possible.
: I'm not so sure that it's impossible to introduce some sort of "mbuf
: quota system"; however, doing such a thing in a way which doesn't
: introduce more trouble than it solves will be tricky.

That was the conclusion of the FreeBSD folks that looked at this.
Mbuf shortages are considered very very fatal in traditional BSD
kernels.

Warner