From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 02:45:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1860A16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:45:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97E043D49 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:45:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.197.67] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #7) id 1BcxkT-0006ul-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:44:29 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16600.61068.714211.1647@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:44:28 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Subject: interpreting netstat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:45:22 -0000 Poking around the system, I discovered the "m" option to netstat and got this: 261 mbufs in use 74/17088 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) 0/4/4528 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 213 KBytes allocated to network 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 935 calls to protocol drain routines ... which would be a lot more useful if I had a reference standard. Which I can't seen to find. This was taken on a system which has had minimal network traffic for several hours. How would I expect things to change as load increased? What are the warning signs the network is approaching saturation? Robert "happy to just be curious" Huff