From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 6 08:55:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA21015 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA21009 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA27681; Mon, 6 May 1996 11:55:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 11:55:05 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605061555.AA27681@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBUFs leaking? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Heh, mine says 98% in use, and the box is idle, with only 2 of the > 5 ethernet segments active. I worry when it fusses that it can't > allocate ARP buffers... I have a re-vamped mbuf allocator written by someone here which I could provide to those interesting in trying a different mechanism. This allocator does not call the kernel malloc() as it is too slow, and instead manages a private pool of mbufs which is allocated from mb_map in a similar manner to the pool of mbuf clusters. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant