> 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.

The difference being that it doesn't actually crash NetBSD.  It *only*
causes a mbuf shortage.