From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 24 15:58:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from field.videotron.net (field.videotron.net [205.151.222.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31AD37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:58:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modemcable213.3-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.201.3.213]) by field.videotron.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.12.14.10.29.p8) with ESMTP id <0G2Y00DF1IHTKQ@field.videotron.net> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:58:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:03:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bosko Milekic Subject: Re: mbuf leakage on 4.1.1-STABLE In-reply-to: <20001013160326.Q37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> X-Sender: bmilekic@jehovah.technokratis.com To: Bill Fumerola Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI: I've just MFC'd the change I introduced to -CURRENT about a week ago, after this first came up. It changes the percentage to indicate how much of mb_map has actually been allocated. This required an additional sysctl in -CURRENT but was an extremely simple change in -STABLE. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:59:46AM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > > > >> 312 Kbytes allocated to network (92% in use) > > >> ^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > Perhaps I should have spoken up earlier, but none of these reports has > > indicated a problem. The "92%" above is the percent of buffers that have been > > allocated and are currently in-use. The system allocates more when the pool > > runs out. The % in use is essentially a useless number that shouldn't even > > be reported because it just causes confusion about what it means. > > Perhaps we should change the message to "%d%% of those in use". > > -- > Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. > billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Cheers, Bosko Milekic bmilekic@technokratis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message