From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 12 14:29:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from field.videotron.net (field.videotron.net [205.151.222.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA4737B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modemcable213.3-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.201.3.213]) by field.videotron.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.12.14.10.29.p8) with ESMTP id <0G2C00EBR5MTMJ@field.videotron.net> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:13:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:17:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bosko Milekic Subject: RE: mbuf leakage on 4.1.1-STABLE In-reply-to: X-Sender: bmilekic@jehovah.technokratis.com To: "Kuriyama, Kent K Mr (CPF N651KK)" Cc: behanna@zbzoom.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kuriyama, Kent K Mr (CPF N651KK) wrote: > Chris, > > Your email prompted me to look at mbuf utilization on a 4.1.1-STABLE box > that is currently not in production. > > outside# netstat -m > 130/160/7168 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): > 129 mbufs allocated to data > 1 mbufs allocated to packet headers > 128/136/1792 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > 312 Kbytes allocated to network (92% in use) > ^^^^^^^^^^ > 0 requests for memory denied > 0 requests for memory delayed > 0 calls to protocol drain routines > outside# uptime > 4:32AM up 1 day, 14:01, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > I don't know whether to be concerned about the 92% utilization since the > number of bytes allocated seems low. The machine has never crashed but then > it has never served as a server. > > Is this kind of mbuf utilization expected? Yes. This is just reporting how much of presently allocated pages are in use. It's really not my favorite statistic either, but I guess that in some situations, it can be fairly useful. > Kent Kuriyama > SPAWAR Sys Ctr San Diego D424, CINCPACFLT N671KK > kuriyakk@cpf.navy.mil, 808-471-4125 [...] Later, Bosko Milekic bmilekic@technokratis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message