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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: MBUFs leaking?
To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens)
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 00:39:59 +1000 (EST)
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Charles Owens writes:

> I am seeing the same behavior as well!  I also have NMBCLUSTERS set to
> 4096 but according to 'netstat -m', only 156k is allocated to mbufs!!  I
> was wondering if I was interpretting it correctly.  Any theories? 

I always thought that whilst there is a definable upper bound on how many
clusters might be created, the memory actually used for data was dynamically
allocated (and freed),

	michael