2.0.31p2 locks up

Dale Amon as Operator (root@starbase1.gpl.net)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:39:02 +0100 (BST)

> After about a day the number of skbufs is about 100 000. What is
>the size of a skbuf? If they averaged 100 bytes, I would have 10 MB
>taken by kernel memory.
>
> BTW, It seems strange that so few people seemed to have
>experienced that problem. I experienced it MANY times.

This sounds hauntingly familiar... I have a system with a heavy
mail load, 2 ethernets, virtual servers, web servers... and if I
didn't have it autoreboot every 12 hours it would go into death
by thrashing about every 24 hours. One other person contacted me
a couple weeks ago to say they'd seen a similar problem, but
neither of us had anything hard to go on... other than the
lock up.