From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 20:30:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00225 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hermes.iaccess.com.au (hermes.iaccess.com.au [203.5.74.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00122 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@iaccess.com.au) Received: from alpine.iaccess (alpine.iaccess.com.au [203.5.74.227]) by hermes.iaccess.com.au (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA27042; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:28:36 GMT Message-ID: <012c01bdb6b3$66f55fc0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess> Reply-To: "Andrew Specht" From: "Andrew Specht" To: "Chris Johnson" , Subject: Re: netstat -m shows 64/66 mbuf clusters in use under no load Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:30:25 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :) ------------------------------------------------------------------- "People who say money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop" Andrew Specht System Administrator / Internet Access Australia andrew@iaccess.com.au http://www.iaccess.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Chris Johnson To: 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 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message