Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:34:24 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf's Message-ID: <19981123103424.A9274@ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <199811220412.UAA01794@root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 08:12:46PM -0800 References: <19981121002253.G7077@cpl.net> <199811220412.UAA01794@root.com>
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On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 08:12:46PM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > >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. > So, do you mean that network buffers are allocated "on-demand" from the global mbuf pool and never deallocated? Thanks, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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