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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 07:30:51 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        Lubo Jakab <ljakab@xcem.com>, "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mbufs 
Message-ID:  <199902161530.HAA00889@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:36:02 EST." <Pine.HPP.3.96.990216043530.27668B-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> 

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>On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, David Greenman wrote:
>
>>    I'm not seeing the problem. What's the problem you're having?
>
>> >149 Kbytes allocated to network (91% in use)
>
>That statistic scared me more than once before I (semi-)understood it.

   Ah, if that is the question, then the answer is that the % in-use refers
to the peak number that have been allocated so far. It's a confusing and
mostly worthless statistic.

-DG

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

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