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To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: mbuf's 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:12:46 -0800
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>Is this normal? Right after bootup :
>
>72 mbufs in use:
>        66 mbufs allocated to data
>        1 mbufs allocated to packet headers
>        4 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
>
>
>
>This machine used to stay around 10% most of the time...(before I recompiled
>the kernel) is there a kernel option to increase the mbufs and mbuf clusters? 

   The % number is a percentage of the peak, not of the maximum. It is
confusing and probably shouldn't be reported.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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