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To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
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Subject: Re: mbufs 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.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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