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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:30:25 +1000
From:      "Andrew Specht" <andrew@iaccess.com.au>
To:        "Chris Johnson" <cjohnson@palomine.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: netstat -m shows 64/66 mbuf clusters in use under no load
Message-ID:  <012c01bdb6b3$66f55fc0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>

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the 66 is the peak number of mbuf clusters it used (EVER), not the total
amount available.  64 is the actual number in use at the moment.

I don't think you've got a problem there :)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 11:12 PM
Subject: netstat -m shows 64/66 mbuf clusters in use under no load


>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
>
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