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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:17:24PM +1000 I heard the voice of
Michael VInce, and lo! it spake thus:
> On one of my web servers I have a really high usage of mbuf clusters in 
> use on a web server that does about 3million hits a day.
> 4294914731/262144 mbuf clusters in use (current/max)

No it doesn't (have really high usage, that is).  It just has messed
up statistics, which is standard on SMP machines; see the archives.


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