From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 10:19:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2141065675 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:19:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yonyossef.lists@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3EB8FC17 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:19:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yonyossef.lists@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so216485ugs.39 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:19:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:references:subject :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole:in-reply-to; bh=4OoH+a7ejadhHdsc/U4y+PWXqk+wdp+CE0flZ3NuCEY=; b=P7m3gAi72EdKHd9Ns8klTnFPQtFne3sJ7YVoTSeWps4X2nyOelfTfSpo7kp1+F4jJq WFPCGF7ZD0MyElj1dGnw2apwKHFjHRhUzkijnVtPR01BYn+xB2skH3spoJQpHhrWJNjb CD7OyEY9o3kgyqNBj2lg7yzaikm8OdRBTcBZA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:references:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index :x-mimeole:in-reply-to; b=DYRqG0f20fzGpmxT2Gcx6ifd43+9biLFVjioliUTfDYmZxycHGNTbiWRuvOQ+ajtOa BI1+xyHayVY6OBoJRroGA6+SWeQpCq1S73MQ3StO0CB7CK0ukdV1HO7WiqtluCQsgMV+ yTG2FJAS2Id/VVbJ+/OlIEA+JxMm5bR1Do0kY= Received: by 10.67.100.5 with SMTP id c5mr2566720ugm.43.1229422760736; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mtllpt03 (DSL212-235-20-133.bb.netvision.net.il [212.235.20.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l4sm546416ugf.2.2008.12.16.02.19.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:19:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Yony Yossef" To: "'pluknet'" , "Yony Yossef" References: <000501c95ebe$709bddb0$220f000a@mtl.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:19:13 +0200 Message-ID: <000b01c95f67$c06737f0$220f000a@mtl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acle4V8xmdmOiwd2QpipZ2/g6CK07AAhjeBA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: About netstat -m: What is "mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use" ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:19:22 -0000 > > Hi All, > > > > I'm testing an Ethernet driver on FreeBSD 6.3. > > > > Running netstat -m during an ethernt stress test I see that the > > "mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use" number > is growing > > gradualy. > > Problem is it never goes down after I stop the test, so > it's pushing > > the "mbufs in use" up until the following stress test > iterations reach > > the OS limit. > > What does this number mean? > > > > > > 506391/126009/632400 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) > > 141035/121109/262144/262144 mbuf clusters in use > > (current/cache/total/max) 131054/610 mbuf+clusters out of packet > > secondary zone in use (current/cache) > > > > Can you say what the ethernet stress test do you use? > I'm using a bi-directional test running multiple processes of this ping command: /sbin/ping -c 5000 -i 0.0001 -s 65507 -l 100