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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:28:27 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "Paul A. Procacci" <pprocacci@datapipe.com>
Subject:   Re: mbuf tuning on 9.1
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> wrote:

> Additionally, can someone clarify the meaning of "total" vs. "max" for
> these values?
>
> -Boris
>

It measures the amount of memory being used as that type of data
structure.  This is the total of the number of allocated items (current)
and the number of free items that are being cached by the allocater for
faster allocations in the future (cached).



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