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To: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>
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Subject: Re: how many mbuf clusters??? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:33:35 -1000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:00:07 -0800
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>65/118 mbuf clusters in use
>248 Kbytes allocated to network (57% in use)
>0 requests for memory denied
>0 requests for memory delayed
>0 calls to protocol drain routines            
>
>
>I have 256 users defined in the kernel so I would have expected to see
>(512 + 256 * 16) = 4608 mbuf clusters. Yes?
>
>I am reading this totally wrong?

   The second number (118 in this case) is the peak that have been allocated
since the system was started. It will never be greater than (in this case)
4608.

>For an machine to have heavy hits and about 200 virtual domains what should
>my network buffers look like?

   Yes...perhaps it's not as busy as you think?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project