Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 11:55:05 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBUFs leaking? Message-ID: <9605061555.AA27681@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960506084829.13225A-100000@sasami> References: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960506091022.1525C-100000@dingo.enc.edu> <Pine.BSI.3.93.960506084829.13225A-100000@sasami>
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<<On Mon, 6 May 1996 08:56:37 -0500 (CDT), "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> said: > Heh, mine says 98% in use, and the box is idle, with only 2 of the > 5 ethernet segments active. I worry when it fusses that it can't > allocate ARP buffers... I have a re-vamped mbuf allocator written by someone here which I could provide to those interesting in trying a different mechanism. This allocator does not call the kernel malloc() as it is too slow, and instead manages a private pool of mbufs which is allocated from mb_map in a similar manner to the pool of mbuf clusters. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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