From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 00:44:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16024 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15922 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19813; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:34:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:34:24 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: David Greenman Cc: Shawn Ramsey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf's Message-ID: <19981123103424.A9274@ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: David Greenman , Shawn Ramsey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19981121002253.G7077@cpl.net> <199811220412.UAA01794@root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.17i In-Reply-To: <199811220412.UAA01794@root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 08:12:46PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 08:12:46PM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > >Is this normal? Right after bootup : > > > >72 mbufs in use: > > 66 mbufs allocated to data > > 1 mbufs allocated to packet headers > > 4 mbufs allocated to protocol control blocks > > 1 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses > >64/66 mbuf clusters in use > >141 Kbytes allocated to network (97% in use) > >0 requests for memory denied > >0 requests for memory delayed > >0 calls to protocol drain routines > > > > > > > >This machine used to stay around 10% most of the time...(before I recompiled > >the kernel) is there a kernel option to increase the mbufs and mbuf clusters? > > The % number is a percentage of the peak, not of the maximum. It is > confusing and probably shouldn't be reported. > So, do you mean that network buffers are allocated "on-demand" from the global mbuf pool and never deallocated? Thanks, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message