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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:46:02 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Cc:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mbuf's 
Message-ID:  <199811230846.AAA04936@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:34:24 %2B0200." <19981123103424.A9274@ucb.crimea.ua> 

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>>    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?

   Never freed back to the global memory pool, but of course they are
freed back to the mbuf pool.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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