From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 16:41:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E06F16A4E0 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from ecluster5.tls.net (ecluster5.tls.net [65.196.224.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3737543DC5 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:38:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 59481 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2006 16:43:25 -0000 Received: from 204-8-13-106.bb.hrtc.net (HELO ?192.168.0.103?) (ldg%tls.net@204.8.13.106) by auth-ecluster5.tls.net with SMTP; 1 Aug 2006 16:43:25 -0000 Message-ID: <44CF8361.2090004@pixelhammer.com> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:37:53 -0400 From: DAve User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: piperd in top X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:41:16 -0000 Good morning, We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state of piperd. Possibly I misunderstand it's meaning. I thought that was a lack of file descriptors? Netstat -m shows the following, bash-2.05b# netstat -m mbuf usage: GEN cache: 0/0 (in use/in pool) CPU #0 cache: 1075/1440 (in use/in pool) CPU #1 cache: 187/416 (in use/in pool) CPU #2 cache: 170/512 (in use/in pool) CPU #3 cache: 147/448 (in use/in pool) Total: 1579/2816 (in use/in pool) Mbuf cache high watermark: 512 Maximum possible: 51200 Allocated mbuf types: 1064 mbufs allocated to data 515 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses 5% of mbuf map consumed mbuf cluster usage: GEN cache: 2/736 (in use/in pool) CPU #0 cache: 508/520 (in use/in pool) CPU #1 cache: 5/128 (in use/in pool) CPU #2 cache: 6/128 (in use/in pool) CPU #3 cache: 10/128 (in use/in pool) Total: 531/1640 (in use/in pool) Cluster cache high watermark: 128 Maximum possible: 25600 6% of cluster map consumed 3984 KBytes of wired memory reserved (36% in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines apropos piperd shows nothing, man top gives no clues. Is this an issue or am I worried about nothing? Thanks, DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.