From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 20:01:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24611 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:01:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buddy.palomine.net (qmailr@buddy.palomine.net [205.198.88.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA24605 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@buddy.palomine.net) Received: (qmail 26172 invoked by uid 500); 24 Jul 1998 03:00:54 -0000 Message-ID: <19980723230054.A26160@palomine.net> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:00:54 -0400 From: Chris Johnson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: netstat -m shows 64/66 mbuf clusters in use under no load Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did a fresh install yesterday of FreeBSD-2.2.7 on an Intel PR440FX-based computer (PPro180, onboard AIC7880, onboard Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B, 128MB RAM). The installation is pretty minimal; there isn't a whole lot running, there's virtually no load on the box, and I'm the only one connected. netstat -m produces the following (booting from kernel.GENERIC): 75 mbufs in use: 66 mbufs allocated to data 1 mbufs allocated to packet headers 7 mbufs allocated to protocol control blocks 1 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses 64/66 mbuf clusters in use 141 Kbytes allocated to network (97% in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines The 64/66 mbuf clusters in use concerns me. Why would a completely unloaded box with a plain vanilla installation show this? I compiled a bunch of different kernels with various values for maxusers and NMBCLUSTERS, and the output of netstat -m was pretty much as above, even with wildly different maxusers and NMBCLUSTERS. Does anyone know what's happening here? Is the kernel broken? Is netstat broken? Is there something I should check? Do I not know what the hell I'm talking about? Thanks in advance! Chris Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message