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To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
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Subject: Re: routers, kernel parameters and bizarro netstat -m output 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>>> 192/206 mbuf clusters in use
>>  ^^^^^^^
>
>However I am a little worried that I cant seem to get the amount of
>mbufs in use to available at such a close ratio.  Should not there be
>way more free ?  I thought these values had hard limits and do not
>grow ?

   It is a ratio of current/peak, not a ratio of current/limit. Finding out
the limit is more complicated; I suppose it would be useful if that was
perhaps output as: current/peak/limit.

-DG

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

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