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To: Andrew <andrew@iaccess.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Why do mbufs keep increasing????? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 12:29:02 +1000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 01:47:35 -0700
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>ok.. what's happening is the netstat -m command says 7200/8800 mbuf
>clusters in use and the number after the / (which is the peak clusters in
>use) keeps going up and up and up.  Shouldn't that stop sometime?  It went
>up to about 16000 before the whole thing crashed.

   Sounds like an mbuf cluster leak. Are you doing WWW proxying by chance?
I recall someone else mentioning a similar problem.

-DG

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

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